I’ll be joining Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl for Top Ten Tuesday again this year.

This week’s topic is: Bookish Quotes. I love quotes but I am really bad about writing them down when I find good ones. I need to get better about that. But I was able to find 10 quotes that I love about books and reading.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

George R.R. Martin

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Haruki Murakami

We read to know we’re not alone.

William Nicholson

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it

Oscar Wilde

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Ernest Hemingway

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

Stephen King

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 W. Eliot

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

Joseph Brodsky

There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.

Irving Stone