H. P. Lovecraft Quotes

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

Books are my weakness.

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

My goal is to be surrounded by books.

I have about 3,500 books, maybe more.

I have always been reconciled to the fact that I was born a bibliomaniac, never have I sought a cure, and my dearest friends have been drawn from those likewise suffering from book madness.

Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof.

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

To a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is somewhere on his shelves.

. . . finally, I couldn't imagine how I could live without books, and I stopped dreaming about marrying that Chinese prince. . . .

But I hope I will never have a life that is not surrounded by books, by books that are bound in paper and cloth and glue, such perishable things for ideas have lasted thousands of years . . . I hope I am always walled in by the very weight and breadth and clumsy, inefficient, antiquated bulk of them, hope that I spend my last days on this Earth arranging and rearranging them on thrones of good, honest pine, oak, and mahogany, because I just like to look at their covers, and dream of the promise of the great stories inside.

I collect books - a lot of books.

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

I can't take just one book with me anywhere.

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

Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading.

I cannot live without reading.

We live for books.

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

I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.

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'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 love to read, and I love to write. I love to read. You have no idea how many books I have.

I buy way too many books.