Beatrix Potter Quotes

And how shall I think of you?' He considered a moment and then laughed. 'Think of me with my nose in a book!

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

For twenty years I read a book a day, from the time I was seven until I was twenty-seven.

I am simply a book drunkard.

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.

Books are to me as homemade tattoos are to an inmate. Can't get enough of them.

That's important to me, to recommend books.

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

I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.

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

There are 10,000 books in my library, and it will keep growing until I die. This has exasperated my daughters, amused my friends and baffled my accountant. If I had not picked up this habit in the library long ago, I would have more money in the bank today; I would not be richer.

We live for books.

I discovered fantasy and science fiction when I was about 10, and read nothing else for about three years. I ran out of all the books that there were to read in the library. I was keen on reading stuff that took me to other places.

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.

From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.

...If I don't have twenty or thirty books right here, waiting to be read, I start jonesing. That's my compulsion.

But the penciled sheets did not seem like nor smell like the library book so she had given it up, consoling herself with the vow that when she grew up, she would work hard, save money and buy every single book that she liked.

My parents were teachers and they went out of their way to see to it that I had books. We grew up in a home that was full of books. And so I learned to read. I loved to read.

Writing is a job, a craft, and you learn it by trying to write every day and by facing the page with humility and gall. And you have to love to read books, all kinds of books, good books. You are not looking for anything in particular; you are just letting stuff seep in.

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

I hate to lend a book I love...it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.

I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.

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.

My parents would frisk me before family events. Before weddings, funerals, bar mitzvahs, and what have you. Because if they didn't, then the book would be hidden inside some pocket or other and as soon as whatever it was got under way I'd be found in a corner. That was who I was...that was what I did. I was the kid with the book.

I sometimes think about that, when I finish in something big I find it even hard, I feel like I lose an actual noticeable percentage of my reading time. Even on the reader end I find it so hard when a book that I love so much ends, to find the kindness to enter into a new one. Do you know what I'm saying? To find my way in, I feel like even there's that space after. I just love inhabiting a book that hits right.