Rita Mae Brown Quotes

My goal is to be surrounded by books.

I wanted to live among books.

From that moment on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again.

I started reading. I read everything I could get my hands on...By the time I was thirteen I had read myself out of Harlem. I had read every book in two libraries and had a card for the Forty-Second Street branch.

Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to stand between us and the book that could change our lives.

I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.

We will always return to the private and inviolable act of reading as our culture's way of developing an individual.

One of my brothers read a lot. His head was forever in some book.

Books, books, books! I had found the secret of a garret room Piled high with cases in my father’s name; Piled high, packed large,--where, creeping in and out Among the giant fossils of my past, Like some small nimble mouse between the ribs Of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there At this or that box, pulling through the gap, In heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, The first book first. And how I felt it beat Under my pillow, in the morning’s dark, An hour before the sun would let me read! My books!

I was never without a book in my hand.

. . . finally, I couldn't imagine how I could live without books, and I stopped dreaming about marrying that Chinese prince. . . .

I collect books - a lot of books.

I'm the sort of person who would be perfectly happy spending an entire day in a rare books room.

Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books.

I loved to read, and if I could've been a professional reader, that's probably what I would've wanted to be!

I fell in love with reading when I was allowed to choose whatever books I wanted to check out of the library. I was around nine years old when I began choosing my own books in earnest.

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 read all the time. I love it. My fantasy would be to be locked into a library. I'd be very, very happy.

I'm an inveterate bookstore wanderer. I read constantly, so I love a good bookstore. I can't help it.

I am a bookworm.

No matter how busy I am, I find time to read, day and night.

I'm a bookworm.

I love reading, I'm such a bookworm.

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

I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.