Michael Dirda Quotes

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

Anthologizing is a dusty sport, half antique hunting and half literary gossip fest, and I love it.

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!

Close friends consider me a literary snob.

I have to admit that I am really partial to the look and feel of a book. I have been that way my entire life.

I used to say that if I could get paid to read books, my life would be made.

Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper.

We live for books.

Of all things I liked books best.

I even love the smell of books.

Not anymore. I'm afraid I've degenerated into a bibliophile." "A what?" asked Eragon. "One who loves books," explained Jeod.

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

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

I read pretty voraciously. If it's good, I don't care what it is.

I am a Graham Greene fan - I'm just a ferocious reader. I read an awful lot when I get the time.

There are things I read doing research, and there are certain books and writers I just love to read. There are books of Brian Morten's that I love, for instance. There's a wonderful book by an Australian writer named Helen Garner called 'The Children's Bach,' and I just love the way she uses language in it.

I am a big book collector. I love books.

A glimpse at my night stand gives the mostly true impression that I am a book hoarder.

I love everything about books. I love the content, the way they look and even the lovely way they smell. I think a book collection says something about you as a person, and certainly my books are something I'd want to pass on for future generations.

Books look handsome and it's a real singular experience getting to go to a bookstore. I don't want to not do that.

I suppose I'm an obsessive reader. If I could make a living reading the books I want to read and then telling people about them, I'd pick that over acting.

I've got libraries in my blood.

Basbanes makes you love books.

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

He loved a book because it was a book; he loved its odor, its form, its title. What he loved in a manuscript was its old illegible date, the bizarre and strange Gothic characters, the heavy gilding which loaded its drawings. It was its pages covered with dust — dust of which he breathed the sweet and tender perfume with delight.