Reading Obsession Quotes

To read too many books is harmful.

Instead of becoming a great shikari, as my mother and stepfather might have wished, I had become an incurable bookworm and was to remain one for the rest of my life.

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

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

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

I read constantly. If I don't have a good book, I'm beside myself.

I was one those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually meant to not be reading, my family would frisk me and take the book away. If they didn't find it by this point in the procedure, I would be sitting over in that corner completely unnoticed just reading my book.

When I was a teenager I was a total romantic escapist. My world was books.

Books are a narcotic.

For twenty years I read a book a day, from the time I was seven until I was twenty-seven.

But I too hate long books: the better, the worse. If they're bad they merely make me pant with the effort of holding them up for a few minutes. But if they're good, I turn into a social moron for days, refusing to go out of my room, scowling and growling at interruptions, ignoring weddings and funerals, and making enemies out of friends. I still bear the scars of Middlemarch.

I grew up in a place where books were very, very scarce, and I loved to read. I used to read the writing on my breakfast Ovaltine over and over again because it was in front of me, and I couldn't help but read anything that was in front of me.

That ideal reader suffering from an ideal insomnia.

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!

I bought myself a rubber brain, familiarized myself with its many parts, listened intently, and read more. In fact, I read obsessively, as my husband has told me repeatedly. He has even suggested that my rapacious reading resembles an addiction.

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

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

I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going.

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

I fall for all those lists of 100 books you must read, and go out and buy most of them.

They're book addicts.

It doesn't matter if I'm only to be gone four days, as in this case; I take six months' supply of reading material everywhere. Anyone who needs further explication of this eccentricity can find it usefully set out in the first pages of W. Somerset Maugham's story "The Book-Bag.

People sometimes think that I bring home all these old books because I'm addicted, that I'm no better than a hoarder with a houseful of crumbling newspapers.

Books are to me as homemade tattoos are to an inmate. Can't get enough of them.

When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.