Beware Those Who Are ALWAYS READING BOOKS
I find booksellers comforting - they're my people.
I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.
They're book addicts.
There are some people who read too much: The bibliobibuli.
Avid readers are enchanted by meaning, which is available chiefly in books.
I have a lot of respect for readers because I'm a reader. That's how I got into writing.
I don't love reading so much, but I love book shopping.
Anthologists are lazy fellows who like to spend a quiet evening at home raiding good books.
My husband and I are huge bibliophiles. He's always reading 'The New York Times Book Review' and then ordering 20 books online.
I'm afraid I've degenerated into a bibliophile.
Mom and Dad were bibliophiles. Dad shared his father's love of westerns, Mom favored the likes of Zelazny and Heinlein, Howard and Burroughs. We owned several hundred books stored in trunks that comprised our portable library.
There are people who are always, I think, going to remain people of the book, to use another author's title, but people of the book, who really must be around.
America is full of readers of all different sorts who love books in many different ways, and I keep meeting them. And I think editors should look after them, and make less effort to please people who don't actually like books.
Books don't only furnish a room: they also make the best holiday gifts.
He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends
Not anymore. I'm afraid I've degenerated into a bibliophile." "A what?" asked Eragon. "One who loves books," explained Jeod.
I love bookstores and booksellers. In my novel 'Dirty Martini,' I thanked over 3,000 booksellers by name in the back matter.
To a bibliophile, there is but one thing better than a box of new books, and that is a box of old ones.
Book readers are special people, and they will always turn to books as the ultimate pleasure. Those who do not read are the unfortunate ones. There's nothing wrong with them; but they are missing out on one of life's compensations and rewards. A great book is a friend that never lets you down. You can return to it again and again and the joy first derived from it will still be there.
I am not a bibliophile but a humanophile: I look for rare human beings.
