Reading Enthusiasts Quotes

I'm not a reader myself, so I don't expect anyone else to be.

Books make great gifts because they're everybody's favorite things.

I find booksellers comforting - they're my people.

Avid readers are enchanted by meaning, which is available chiefly in books.

Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them.

Acknowledgements With grateful thanks to the three least-appreciated and hardest-working proselytizers of the written word: independent bookstores, librarians, and teachers.

I don't love reading so much, but I love book shopping.

You get all sorts of people in the library, and the librarian gets it all.

Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such; not as related to nature and the human constitution, but as making a sort of Third Estate with the world and the soul. Hence, the restorers of readings, the emendators, the bibliomaniacs of all degrees.

Anthologists are lazy fellows who like to spend a quiet evening at home raiding good books.

There are people out there who genuinely love literature, who genuinely love to read and read widely, who will never like, or even necessarily get, my books. That was a hard one to swallow, to not feel slighted by.

Librarians and romance writers accomplish one mission better than anyone, including English teachers: we create readers for life - and what could be more fulfilling than that?

The beauty of Goodreads is that you know you’re sowing in a field where everyone, by definition and self-selection, loves to read.

I've got lots of favourite authors, but I would say Nicci French because I look more forward to reading her next new book than any other author.

The kids I talk to are readers, and the craziest, the most dedicated readers you will ever see.

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.

I go to a lot of writers conferences and literary festivals that tend to be in college towns or cities, and I'm eager to see what happens if those same texts and those same questions move outside of those areas to smaller rural communities where there are surely people who read and love poetry.

It should be said upfront that I totally dig people who work in bookstores and libraries. They love books, and I love books, and that is all I really need to know. If they are friendly to me, then we are clearly soul mates.