Anthony Doerr Quotes

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

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

I collect books - a lot of books.

Your library is your portrait.

Because I have two houses, I invariably get immersed in a book and then discover it's at the other house.

Books are my weakness.

My wife and I love to read. We're going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have our dogs.

Now that my kids are out of the house, I'm finally able to get to the classics I never read: Emily Bronte, Dylan Thomas, Joseph Heller's 'Catch-22.' It's endless. They're all in this gigantic pile next to my bed.

I don't know why - I have a ton of books: five full cabinets of them.

I've just started to get really envious when I go into people's houses and see books on a shelf.

There is a logic [to my reading], but I can't define it. I like reading impulsively. I collect books, I have a lot of them, but most of them I have not read yet. I'll read them when they call me from the shelf.

Books, in the plural lose their solidity of substance and become a gas, filling all available space.

I've always been a big reader.

I played Little League for one year. That was it. Then my mother realized I liked books and threatened my father. I owe her forever for that.

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

We had library books in our house, but not our own. So you had 14 days to read them. There would be eight books a fortnight in our house and I'd read as many of those as I could.

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

I buy books, I have shelves of books. I love to read.

My night stand is permanently jammed with books I want to read.

I am glad to say that I used to read a lot right from a young age.

It sounds like a brag but I've got a separate room in my flat just for unread books; I don't let my read books touch my unread books.

I always look for a bookshop wherever I go.

It wasn't until I was 23 and got married to a guy who was really bookish that I got completely hooked on reading and writing again. He had so many paperbacks, I didn't have to buy a book for four and a half years.

I love books. Probably too much for my own good.

When I was growing up, I remember having read all the books in the library. I often tried to emulate my favourite writers.