Grenville Kleiser Quotes

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

I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please.

The true felicity of a lover of books is the luxurious turning of page by page, the surrender, not meanly abject, but deliberate and cautious, with your wits about you, as you deliver yourself into the keeping of the book. This I call reading.

Of all things I liked books best.

I even love the smell of books.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

I used to say that if I could get paid to read books, my life would be made.

If there had been a job of being a reader, I would have taken that, because I love to read and I don't love to write. That would be blissful.

But he who truly loves books loves all books alike, and not only this, but it grieves him that all other men do not share with him this noble passion. Verily, this is the most unselfish of loves!

He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.

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

A taste for books, which is still the pleasure and glory of my life.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!

What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!

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

I'd much prefer my books to shoes...In the summer I sometimes take walks without shoes but never without a novel.

Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.

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

Books were my passion and my escape from madness.

And you love to read, you love to escape, right?

When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.

I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.

She had her addictions and one of them was reading.

I was never without a book in my hand.