Frank Delaney Quotes

You need have no dull hours if you are a sincere lover of books.

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!

My perfect reader doesn't just read - he or she devours books.

I'm one of those freaky people that actually reads books.

If there had been a job of being a reader, I would have taken that, because I love to read and I don't love to write. That would be blissful.

I love an author the more for having been himself a lover of books.

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

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

A little-known fact about me: I read all the time.

I spent my entire childhood feeling like a freak because I liked to read. It's just like, "Eh, no one else likes to read but me; I must be crazy!"

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

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.

Since the age of five I had been one of those people who was an indefatigable reader, more inclined to go off by myself with a book than do any of the dozens of things that children usually do to amuse themselves. I never aged out of it.

I read books. Avidly, ardently! As if my life depended upon it.

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

She is a real bookworm. I think she lives on print. Her whole house is full of books - looks as if she likes them better than human company.

He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.

I guess there are never enough books.

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

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

I'm a voracious reader.

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

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.

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've always been a voracious reader.