Annie Proulx Quotes

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

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

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

The greatest gift is a passion for reading.

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

I have a sweet tooth for reading, so books migrate to my zip code en mass.

I'm obsessed with books.

Since I could read, I always had my nose in a book.

Books are my weakness.

I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.

I have always been an obsessive reader - I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books taller than I was.

I was a reader before I was a writer - one of those kids who walked home from school with a book up to my face, about to fall in the proverbial pothole because I couldn't see where I was going. And now I'm one of those people whose books are triple shelved and who can't go anywhere without carrying two titles - one that I'm reading and one backup.

I've got libraries in my blood.

Basbanes makes you love books.

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

I grabbed my book and opened it up. I wanted to smell it. Heck, I wanted to kiss it. Yes, kiss it. That's right, I am a book kisser. Maybe that's kind of perverted or maybe it's just romantic and highly intelligent.

I am simply a book drunkard.

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.

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.

I'm afraid I've degenerated into a bibliophile.

I read constantly. If I don't have a good book, I'm beside myself.

I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I’m like that. If I stop reading, I die.

She had her addictions and one of them was reading.

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

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