Jan Morris Quotes

I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please.

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

I have to admit that I am really partial to the look and feel of a book. I have been that way my entire life. I like the weight, look, and feel of a book. I enjoy turning the pages, and frequently scan the spines of my many books on the wall, each title a reminder of the stored information and creative thoughts contained therein.

I wanted to live among books.

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

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

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

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 don't own a Kindle, no. I love books, they are beautiful objects.

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

Most scholarly books we read for the information or insight they contain. But some we return to simply for the pleasure of the author's company.

Books look handsome and it's a real singular experience getting to go to a bookstore. I don't want to not do that.

I love books. I want to read them, and I want to own them so they're always available to be reread.

I've always loved books.

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.

A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.

I love an author the more for having been himself a lover of books.

The happiest and most glorious hours of my life with books have been with German books.

For to sit in a room full of books, and remember the stories they told you, and to know precisely where each one is located and what was happening in your life at time or where you were when you first read it is the languid and distilled pleasure of the connoisseur.

When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.

When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.

Of all things I liked books best.

The true felicity of a lover of books is the luxurious turning of page by page, the surrender, not meanly abject, but deliberate and cautious, with your wits about you, as you deliver yourself into the keeping of the book. This I call reading.

But it doesn't stop at school. We can all enjoy books throughout our lives - as I certainly continue to do.

I even love the smell of books.