Sherman Alexie Quotes

I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself.

A bookman’s love of books is a love of books, not merely of the information in them.

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.

Basbanes makes you love books.

As a child, I felt that books were holy objects, to be caressed, rapturously sniffed, and devotedly provided for. I gave my life to them. I still do. I continue to do what I did as a child; dream of books, make books and collect books.

That's right, I am a book kisser.

What is a great love of books? It is something like a personal introduction to the great and good men of all past times. Books, it is true, are silent as you see them on their shelves; but, silent as they are, when I enter a library I feel as if almost the dead were present, and I know if I put questions to these books they will answer me with all the faithfulness and fulness which has been left in them by the great men who have left the books with us.

But he who truly loves books loves all books alike, and not only this, but it grieves him that all other men do not share with him this noble passion. Verily, this is the most unselfish of loves!

I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful.

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

I am simply a book drunkard.

I would rather be dead than not read

We live for books.

Those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers.

She would bring you some great book because she was a book matchmaker, because she loved books the way other girls loved clothes.

I still love the book-ness of books, the smell of books: I am a book fetishist—books to me are the coolest and sexiest and most wonderful things there are.

It is true, that it is not at all necessary to love many books, in order to love them much.

The more I like a book, the more reluctant I am to turn the page. Lovers, even book lovers, tend to cling. No one-night stands or "reads" for them.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading.

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

I'm obsessed with books. When a good book hits me, it's all I can think about and all I can do.

I'm an appreciator. I love all kinds of books, and I want others to love them, too.

But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room - far better than paintings... That's not quite true!

When I love a book, I really love a book. You don't get that very often.