Adriana Trigiani Quotes

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

It doesn't matter if I'm only to be gone four days, as in this case; I take six months' supply of reading material everywhere. Anyone who needs further explication of this eccentricity can find it usefully set out in the first pages of W. Somerset Maugham's story "The Book-Bag.

I buy way too many books.

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.

I personally own six or seven thousand books, so I - and I certainly don't want to see them go away.

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 love books so much. I've read more books than anyone else I know.

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 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.

Like many people, I am addicted to the physical act of reading.

Books are my weakness.

I have always been an obsessive reader - I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books taller than I was.

I was a library rat and a bookworm. I read all the time. I walked to school reading books. I read under my desk.

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.

The thing about reading is that if you are hooked, you're not going to stop just because one series is over; you're going to go and find something else.

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

When I travel, I can leave everything at home apart from books. I curate my holiday reading rigorously and would be devastated if I found I'd left one at home.

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

I've got libraries in my blood.

She wanted to be buried in a coffin filled with used paperbacks.

We live for books.

I'd much prefer my books to shoes...In the summer I sometimes take walks without shoes but never without a novel.

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