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Looking for a reason to read books? Check out some inspiring book quotes from famous authors and get ready to stimulate your mind and life.

“Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.” ― Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

“It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place” ― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

“Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.” ― René Descartes

“They're book addicts.” ― Lemony Snicket, The Miserable Mill

“Of course I loved books more than people.” ― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

“Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.” ― Heinrich Heine

“Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.” ― Amos Bronson Alcott, Tablets

“My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.” ― Mark Twain, Notebook

“Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.” ― Alain de Botton