Eugene Field Quotes

I have an intimate relationship with books. After all, I take them with me into the bathtub-not an invitation I offer lightly.

From candlelight to early bedtime, I read.

Only one hour in the normal day is more pleasurable than the hour spent in bed with a book before going to sleep, and that is the hour spent in bed with a book after being called in the morning.

Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.

The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who love books, but do not live by books

I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.

I can't picture going to a beach, or anywhere on vacation, without a couple of books as companions.

I've always loved books.

I wanted to live among books.

I honestly believe there is absolutely nothing like going to bed with a good #book; or a friend who's #read one.

You need have no dull hours if you are a sincere lover of books.

I don't want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over.

I don't know if [Samuel] Beckett is something you ever bring to the beach - get out of the water, towel off, and start reading some of "The Unnamable." Although, because it's the kind of book you can open to any page and start reading, it is beach reading in that way.

To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing.

It can't be supposed," said Joe. "Tho' I'm oncommon fond of reading, too." Are you, Joe?" Oncommon. Give me," said Joe, "a good book, or a good newspaper, and sit me down afore a good fire, and I ask no better. Lord!" he continued, after rubbing his knees a little, "when you do come to a J and a O, and says you, 'Here, at last, is a J-O, Joe,' how interesting reading is!

I even love the smell of books.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.

How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!

I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading.

You'll enjoy it. There is much you can learn from books and scrolls," said Jeod. He gestured at the walls. "These books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life." "It sounds intriguing," admitted Eragon. "Always the scholar, aren't you?" asked Brom. Jeod shrugged. "Not anymore. I'm afraid I've degenerated into a bibliophile.

That's right, I am a book kisser.

The more I like a book, the more reluctant I am to turn the page. Lovers, even book lovers, tend to cling. No one-night stands or "reads" for them.