Maria Semple Quotes

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

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

People - me included - want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.

My love of books - not just of their tactile pleasures but of their astonishing variety - was born in a book-filled house; my father is a scholar.

I hate that bookstores are closing. Hate it! What's better than hanging out a bookstore, be it independent or chain, and talking books with people who love books?

I have spent more time with other people's books than with my own. I do not regret it.

I love to read, and I love to write. I love to read. You have no idea how many books I have.

Literature has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I can't think back before a time that I didn't love writing and reading. When I was really young, my mother would read poems to me. I loved Edgar Allan Poe - I am sure I didn't understand it, but I loved it.

One of the most important elements of my identity is my identity as a reader. I love to read - really, if I'm honest with myself, it's practically the only activity that I truly love to do.

I am an avid reader.

I am a big book collector. I love books.

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 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.

People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people know about it.

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.

The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.

I have never been able to resist a book about books.

Great is bookishness and the charm of books.

I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books.

Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in order to pass on that passion for stories to our children. It's not about testing and reading schemes, but about loving stories and passing on that passion to our children.

When I love a novel I've read, I want to reread it - in part, to see how it was constructed.

I myself love getting cookbooks and novels that some congenial person has already tried and liked.

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

I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Indie bookstores love writers as much as they love readers, and there is something about a community store, where you walk in, you feel known, and the delight in books is just infectious.