Ruth Rendell Quotes

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 read constantly. If I don't have a good book, I'm beside myself.

I am simply a book drunkard.

She had her addictions and one of them was reading.

I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.

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

Books are my weakness.

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

What can I say? I'm a book junkie.

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

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

We live for books.

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

I've always been a bookworm. As I mentioned, I moved around a lot, and one of the problems with being the new kid is it takes a while to make new friends. But I always had my books.

When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.

I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going.

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

I'm a voracious reader.

I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.

I'm such a fangirl when it comes to other writers. I read 250 books a year, and I'm always talking up books by other authors.

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

I was a reader before I was a writer - one of those kids who walked home from school with a book up to my face, about to fall in the proverbial pothole because I couldn't see where I was going. And now I'm one of those people whose books are triple shelved and who can't go anywhere without carrying two titles - one that I'm reading and one backup.

I'm a voracious reader - I always have a book on the go and read for at least half an hour, usually more, every night.

My mother doesn't need much sleep. At any hour of the night, you'd wake up, and she'd be reading. She'd read five, six books a week. When we went on sailing trips, she'd bring a suitcaseful for the week. Even then, her office would have to send more.

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