Salman Rushdie Quotes

My mother had to stop me reading to make me go and get some fresh air. I used to get so annoyed. She actually had to sit on my book because, otherwise, I would find it.

I have a sweet tooth for reading, so books migrate to my zip code en mass.

I can never leave a bookstore without buying a book. I read four or five at a time.

I'm usually reading too many books - in fact, I'm usually reading enough books that if the stack fell on me, I'd be injured.

I'm obsessed with Nicholas Sparks. I've literally read every single book, because every time I travel, at the airport, I always buy a new Nicholas Sparks book.

Books are my weakness.

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

A glimpse at my night stand gives the mostly true impression that I am a book hoarder.

Books are like chocolate. Can't eat just one.

I can't exist without books.

People who fall in love with books never really stop falling.

Books are becoming everything to me. If I had at this moment any choice in life, I would bury myself in one of those immense libraries...and never pass a waking hour without a book before me.

I'm afraid I've degenerated into a bibliophile.

She had her addictions and one of them was reading.

I was an obsessive fantasy reader from the time I could read at all.

At age eleven, I became a member of the circulating library of my home town. From there on I was rarely seen outside but was reading two to four books per week, the subjects ranging from archaeology over ethnology and geography to zoology. Needless to say that I did not do much homework.

I love books. Probably too much for my own good.

I used to steal from the library, which is a crime and it's bad, but I just couldn't get enough books, and I also didn't like to give them back once I'd read them. I just read everything.

I have been a voracious reader.

I love books that create worlds for me that I don't want to leave. I recently lost my entire life to Haruki Murakami - 1Q84. I tell people that book ruined my life in the best possible way. I couldn't think of anything else for weeks after I read it.

I figured I could read more than five pages tonight since I'd been deprived for the last couple of days. When I finished the fifteenth, I discovered I was three pages from the next chapter. Might as well end with a clean break. After I was done, I sighed and leaned back, feeling decadent and spent. Pure bliss. Books were a lot less messy than orgasms.

I'm always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply.

I am simply a book drunkard.

I would rather be dead than not read

Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.