Lisa Scottoline Quotes

My wife calls me the Imelda Marcos of books. As soon as a book enters our home it is guaranteed a permanent place in our lives. Because I have never been able to part with even one, they have gradually accumulated like sediment.

I collect books - a lot of books.

The book borrower...proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures...as by his failure to read these books.

Love of books is the best of all.

I am a bookworm. For play, I bury myself in the corners of libraries and read.

I was that kid with the glasses and the hungry expression who haunted every library book sale and used bookstore in town: the one who always has a book in one hand and is reaching for the next book with the other. There's one in every town.

I'm one of those freaky people that actually reads books.

I read books and talked to people. I mean that's kind of how one learns anything. There's lots of great books out there & lots of smart people.

She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people.

I’ve always found that the better the book I’m reading, the smarter I feel, or, at least, the more able I am to imagine that I might, someday, become smarter.

The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.

Mr. Pewter led them through to a library, filled with thousands of antiquarian books. 'Impressive, eh?' 'Very,' said Jack. 'How did you amass all these?' 'Well,' said Pewter, 'You know the person who always borrows books and never gives them back?' 'Yes...?' 'I'm that person.

She is a real bookworm. I think she lives on print. Her whole house is full of books - looks as if she likes them better than human company.

A bibliomaniac is one to whom books are like bottles of whiskey to the inebriate, to whom anything that is between covers has an intoxicating savor.

I loved to read, and if I could've been a professional reader, that's probably what I would've wanted to be!

Close friends consider me a literary snob.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man.

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

I'm a bookworm.

I'm really nerdy, and I read a lot.

My goal is to be surrounded by books.

I wanted to live among books.

If anyone has read a lot of books and thinks I am primitive because I have not read even one, then he should throw away those books and get one which says we are all brothers and sisters under God and we too have a right to live.

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