Michael Dirda Quotes

I'm an inveterate bookstore wanderer. I read constantly, so I love a good bookstore. I can't help it.

They will be given as gifts; books that are especially pretty or visual will be bought as hard copies; books that are collectible will continue to be collected; people with lots of bookshelves will keep stocking them; and anyone who likes to make notes in books will keep buying books with margins to fill.

I collect books - a lot of books.

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

Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books.

I always have been and will remain someone who loves real, 3D, substantial books. And I don't believe that it's a wistful, nostalgic interest like vinyl collectors. It's not the same thing.

I got my iPad, and I'm trying to buy books on that, but I kind of like a book. At the end of my life, when I'm old, I want to have all these shelves full of books. So I'm just gonna do the book thing.

I don't have an e-reader. One reason is that I like to dog-ear the page when I find a particularly good sentence or passage.

I am an avid reader.

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'm a books person. Yes, I have a Kindle. I used it for an hour and a half and put it in the closet.

I don't know why - I have a ton of books: five full cabinets of them.

I buy books, I have shelves of books. I love to read.

All around us right now, tucked into the valleys and along the coasts, bookshops glow in the winter light. Think of them like singular, magical, and multi-dimensional recipe boxes. They wait for us to pluck out a card, to stand over the stove, to start cooking.

I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.

I know not how it is, but during a voyage I collect books as a ship does barnacles.

As a kid, I dreamt of becoming a writer. My most exciting pastime was reading novels; in fact, I would read anything I could find.

My goal is to be surrounded by books.

I read actual books. It's cool to read on a Kindle if that's what you want to do, but for me, I like having a bookshelf.

I'm not really a book person, to be honest.

At home, I tend to read print, and most of the time, that means recently released hardcover novels. I enjoy the feel of paper and board; I like turning pages, dog-earing my spot, jotting notes in the back.

In a book, you can kind of take time and have lulls in places.

I get transported when I read books.

I'm always reading. I've loved reading since I was young, and I've always loved sinking my teeth into a different world, especially one that you begin to create in your head.

I wanted to live among books.