The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
The book borrower...proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures...as by his failure to read these books.
I love books so much. I've read more books than anyone else I know.
I'm one of those freaky people that actually reads books.
I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man.
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.
I've read every one of Donald Goines' books. So as soon as I heard there was an opportunity for one of his novels to be turned into a movie, I jumped at the opportunity.
He asked <...> Rosemary, why do you love books so much? And I said, Well, I don't know <...> I suppose I love them because they're quiet, and I can take them to the park.
Have you really read all those books in your room?” Alaska laughing- “Oh God no. I’ve maybe read a third of ‘em. But I’m going to read them all. I call it my Life’s Library. Every summer since I was little, I’ve gone to garage sales and bought all the books that looked interesting. So I always have something to read.
I always loved books. I don't remember learning to read, it was just something I always did. I was hungry for knowledge, I guess, and information; I was a curious kid. I still am.
I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.
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 collect books, primarily first-edition 20th-century fiction.
A bibliomaniac is one to whom books are like bottles of whiskey to the inebriate, to whom anything that is between covers has an intoxicating savor.
I would rather be dead than not read
I cannot live without reading.
I'm an appreciator. I love all kinds of books, and I want others to love them, too.
Any given day, you'll find me at secondhand bookstores.
Of course I went and got 'Breaking Dawn' at midnight the night it came out and read it instantly. I was like, 'Yes!'
Love of books is the best of all.
I have three storage units, and that's no lie. Three storage units. All books.
I'm an inveterate bookstore wanderer. I read constantly, so I love a good bookstore. I can't help it.
I have the reputation for having read all of Henry James. Which would argue a misspent youth and middle age.
I'll read a book every now and then, but unlike most of my friends I don't always have one on the go.
The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his taper away, and he bred glow-worms to serve his purpose. They took the glow-worms away and he almost burnt the house down with a tinder.
