Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould Quotes

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

Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy

I'd much prefer my books to shoes...In the summer I sometimes take walks without shoes but never without a novel.

Books were my passion and my escape from madness.

Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate!

I never met a librarian worth his or her salt who didn't perceive my passion for books.

One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.

Half the time I pick up a book, that's what I'm trying to get.

Let my temptation be a book.

My home was in a pleasant place outside of Philadelphia. But I really lived, truly lived, somewhere else. I lived within the covers of books.

When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but to a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas. I think of the books on library shelves, without their jackets, years old, and a countryish teen-aged boy finding them, and having them speak to him. The review, the stacks in Brentano's, are just hurdles to get over, to place the books on that shelf.

The pleasantest of all diversions is to sit alone under the lamp, a book spread out before you, and to make friends with people of a distant past you have never known.

I didn't spend money on nothin'. Besides my daughter, bucket hats, and weed.

I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.

A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with "a sort of greedy enjoyment," as Marcel Proust said of those rooms of his old home whose air was "saturated with the bouquet of silence."

When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.

Your book bill ought to be your biggest extravagance.

If only they would all just leave me alone with my books and my letters, I would be content to let life, and the world pass me by

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.

What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!

I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please.

Give me a bed and a book and I am happy.

I don't personally like the e-readers they've come up with so far. I don't fetishize books, but I do like that they're solid and unchanging.

In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.

Of all things I liked books best.