Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

I am a bookworm. For play, I bury myself in the corners of libraries and read.

I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler.

I'm really nerdy, and I read a lot.

I'm a nerdy guy who likes to read a lot.

I've got libraries in my blood.

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

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

I think most serious and omnivorous readers are alike- intense in their dedication to the word, quiet-minded, but relieved and eagerly talkative when they meet other readers and kindred spirits.

It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless nerd.

I was a book-y child. I was much more book-y than dark.

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

I've always been a bookworm. As I mentioned, I moved around a lot, and one of the problems with being the new kid is it takes a while to make new friends. But I always had my books.

Do you know what they call people who hoard books? Smart.

Since the age of five I had been one of those people who was an indefatigable reader, more inclined to go off by myself with a book than do any of the dozens of things that children usually do to amuse themselves. I never aged out of it.

I was horribly bookish, to the point of coming right out and saying it, which I knew was not socially acceptable. I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler.

I think I'm probably quite geeky in a lot of ways. I'm pretty into books, kind of obsessive about that.

I was a bookish kid, not really athletic.

I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going.

My perfect reader doesn't just read - he or she devours books.

I'm a voracious reader.

I was that kid with the glasses and the hungry expression who haunted every library book sale and used bookstore in town: the one who always has a book in one hand and is reaching for the next book with the other. There's one in every town.

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.

My mother doesn't need much sleep. At any hour of the night, you'd wake up, and she'd be reading. She'd read five, six books a week. When we went on sailing trips, she'd bring a suitcaseful for the week. Even then, her office would have to send more.

I am a geek. I am always in books.

What can I say? I'm a book junkie.