Book Addiction Quotes

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

I'm obsessed with Nicholas Sparks. I've literally read every single book, because every time I travel, at the airport, I always buy a new Nicholas Sparks book.

To read too many books is harmful.

I'm always amazed at friends who say they try to read at night in bed but always end up falling asleep. I have the opposite problem. If a book is good I can't go to sleep, and stay up way past my bedtime, hooked on the writing. Is anything better than waking up after a late-night read and diving right back into the plot before you even get out of bed to brush your teeth?

I get crazy in a bookstore. It makes my heart beat hard because I want to buy everything.

And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.

Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.

Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying new books. Whenever I walk into a bookstore and find a book on one of my hobbies — for example, Old English or Old Norse poetry — I say to myself, “What a pity I can’t buy that book, for I already have a copy at home.

People who fall in love with books never really stop falling.

Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.

...If I don't have twenty or thirty books right here, waiting to be read, I start jonesing. That's my compulsion.

I was that kid with the glasses and the hungry expression who haunted every library book sale and used bookstore in town: the one who always has a book in one hand and is reaching for the next book with the other. There's one in every town.

A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.

Sometimes I - I try not to read too many fiction or novels.

Before I read 'Twilight,' I was in a reading funk. This series brought back my love and obsession for reading.

I'm a reading addict. I can't live without it, like someone who is addicted to drugs.

I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read.

If people don't read, that's their choice; a lifelong book habit may itself be some sort of affliction.

Haven't read a book for years - keep buying them and never getting round to reading them - I never seem to have the time.

Having reached 451 books as of now doesn't help the situation. If I were to be dying now, I would be murmuring, "Too bad! Only four hundred fifty-one." (Those would be my next-to-last words. The last ones will be: "I love you, Janet.") [They were. -Janet.]

They're book addicts.

Books are becoming everything to me. If I had at this moment any choice in life, I would bury myself in one of those immense libraries...and never pass a waking hour without a book before me.

My greatest fear is being somewhere without a book.

I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I’m like that. If I stop reading, I die.

I'm obsessed with books.