Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

The greatest gift is a passion for reading.

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.

You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have loved libraries.

When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.

I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries.

I love the physicality of books.

To me, a book is a book, an electronic device is not, and love of books was the reason I started writing.

My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.

I love to read. But I loved to read a lot longer than I started to love writing.

I think the biggest thing, where my passionate-ness comes from, is that I love reading, and it is something that I really care about.

What is a great love of books? It is something like a personal introduction to the great and good men of all past times. Books, it is true, are silent as you see them on their shelves; but, silent as they are, when I enter a library I feel as if almost the dead were present, and I know if I put questions to these books they will answer me with all the faithfulness and fulness which has been left in them by the great men who have left the books with us.

Books make great gifts because they're something you love that you can share.

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them - with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. Still illiterate, I was ready for them, committed to all the reading I could give them.

Basbanes makes you love books.

The books you love best - those are the immensity of the sea.

Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading.

I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare.

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

Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.

I have a couple of thousand books in my personal library. Choosing a favorite is next to impossible. But I do love the written word.

I even love the smell of books.

The more I like a book, the more reluctant I am to turn the page. Lovers, even book lovers, tend to cling. No one-night stands or "reads" for them.

Read the books you love, tell people about authors you like, and don’t worry about it.

I have a passion for children's literature. Young adult literature. I love it. I've always loved it.

I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself.