Scott Turow Quotes

The greatest gift is a passion for reading.

I'm an appreciator. I love all kinds of books, and I want others to love them, too.

I grabbed my book and opened it up. I wanted to smell it. Heck, I wanted to kiss it. Yes, kiss it. That's right, I am a book kisser. Maybe that's kind of perverted or maybe it's just romantic and highly intelligent.

Those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers.

She would bring you some great book because she was a book matchmaker, because she loved books the way other girls loved clothes.

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

That's right, I am a book kisser.

I guess there are never enough books.

A bookman’s love of books is a love of books, not merely of the information in them.

I love books so much. I've read more books than anyone else I know.

But he who truly loves books loves all books alike, and not only this, but it grieves him that all other men do not share with him this noble passion. Verily, this is the most unselfish of loves!

He asked <...> Rosemary, why do you love books so much? And I said, Well, I don't know <...> I suppose I love them because they're quiet, and I can take them to the park.

To a bibliophile, there is but one thing better than a box of new books, and that is a box of old ones.

I am simply a book drunkard.

I have always been reconciled to the fact that I was born a bibliomaniac, never have I sought a cure, and my dearest friends have been drawn from those likewise suffering from book madness.

I would rather be dead than not read

We live for books.

I even love the smell of books.

I have never been able to resist a book about books.

Great is bookishness and the charm of books.

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.

I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself.

Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in order to pass on that passion for stories to our children. It's not about testing and reading schemes, but about loving stories and passing on that passion to our children.

Anthologizing is a dusty sport, half antique hunting and half literary gossip fest, and I love it.

I'm obsessed with books.