Best 70 International Book Day Quotes and Sayings

International Book Day is celebrated on April 23 all across the world to highlight the importance of books and reading. The day is especially dedicated to book lovers and you can celebrate this day with all such relatives who love to read books.

 

International Books Day Quotes

There is a wonder in reading Braille that the sighted will never know: to touch words and have them touch you back.

—Jim Fiebig

 

I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp.

 —JK Rowling

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

—Kathleen Norris

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

—S.I. Hayakawa

 

A parent or teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.

—Louis L’Amour

Let us read and let us dance—two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.

—Voltaire

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

—Austin Phelps

 

 

Reading is important because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.

—Tomie dePaola

It is books that are the key to the wide world; if you can’t do anything else, read all that you can.

—Jane Hamilton

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

 —Anna Quindlen

I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.

—Jorge Luis Borges

A house without books is like a room without windows.

—Heinrich Mann

International Book Day Quotes and Sayings are written to promote reading habits and indulge people in learning and gaining knowledge other than letting people waste time on games and social media. All these quotes and sayings highlight the importance of books and can help a bookworm/book lover describe the importance and role of books in his or her life.

 

Comics are a gateway drug to literacy.

 —Art Spiegelman

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

—William Godwin

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.

—Mark Twain

 

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

― Ernest Hemingway

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.

― Charles William Eliot

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.

― Cassandra Clare

International Book Day Quotes and Sayings are highly motivating and these inspiring words help a person discover the pleasure of reading and get lost in the world of books. These words of great wisdom motivate you to focus on the joy of book reading and inspire you to pick a good book and make yourself amused and lead a stress-free life.

Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you’ll die of a misprint.

– Markus Herz

Books – the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity.

– George Steiner

Books are uniquely portable magic.

– Stephen King

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

— Ray Bradbury

I am simply a ‘book drunkard.’ Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.

— L.M. Montgomery

In a good bookroom, you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

― Mark Twain

Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.

– Emilie Buchwald

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

– W. B. Yeats

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

– Jessamyn West

Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.

– Augustine Birrell

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

– Mark Twain

Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.

― George R.R. Martin

Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn’t carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.

― Stephen King

Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.

― J.K. Rowling

You can send these famous sayings of well-known authors with your family members, friends, and relatives to whom you want to develop this positive habit. You can also gift your favorite book to a loved one and write any of the inspirational or motivational quotes as a note on it to inspire him or her to read the book completely.