Tana French Quotes

When I was young, I was reading anything and anything I could lay my hands on. I was a veracious-to-the-point-of-insane reader.

I'm still a bit of a reading glutton, I think, because I browse, read a bit of the back copy, flip through the book, read a bit of the text, and if it still seems fascinating, I read it. That's why my bedside table is so cluttered: I want to imbibe it all.

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

I am simply a book drunkard.

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.

Books have always been important to me - my mom was a first grade teacher, so I grew up reading all the time.

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

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

I'm a voracious reader - I always have a book on the go and read for at least half an hour, usually more, every night.

At age eleven, I became a member of the circulating library of my home town. From there on I was rarely seen outside but was reading two to four books per week, the subjects ranging from archaeology over ethnology and geography to zoology. Needless to say that I did not do much homework.

Books are like chocolate. Can't eat just one.

I have been a voracious reader.

A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.

Never read any book that is not a year old.

I can't exist without books.

I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored.

To a bibliophile, there is but one thing better than a box of new books, and that is a box of old ones.

All true readers have a book, a moment when real life is never going to be able to compete with fiction again.

The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book shops and libraries, those literary counterparts to the opium den.

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

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

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

Me and a book is a party. Me and a book and a cup of coffee is an orgy.

A taste for books, which is still the pleasure and glory of my life.

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