Rick Bragg Quotes

I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.

My goal is to be surrounded by books.

I wanted to live among books.

He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.

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

Books, books, books! I had found the secret of a garret room Piled high with cases in my father’s name; Piled high, packed large,--where, creeping in and out Among the giant fossils of my past, Like some small nimble mouse between the ribs Of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there At this or that box, pulling through the gap, In heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, The first book first. And how I felt it beat Under my pillow, in the morning’s dark, An hour before the sun would let me read! My books!

Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.

I was never without a book in my hand.

. . . finally, I couldn't imagine how I could live without books, and I stopped dreaming about marrying that Chinese prince. . . .

I'm the sort of person who would be perfectly happy spending an entire day in a rare books room.

I love to read, and I love to write. I love to read. You have no idea how many books I have.

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 am an avid reader.

For some of us, books are intrinsic to our sense of personal identity.

I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.

My love was always in books. I was just one of those avid readers. Films came later, but the stories were always present.

I have been a voracious reader.

Reading is such a huge part of my life.

Her home is the burrow of a bibliophile hobbit -- low-ceilinged, close-walled, and brimming over with books.

A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him," my father had told me more than once. "A businessman has business books and a dream has novels and books of poetry. Most women like reading about love, and a true revolutionary will have books about the minutiae of overthrowing the oppressor. A person with no books is inconsequential in a modern setting, but a peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.

Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof.

Books are packaged dreams.

We live for books.

Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.