Edith Wharton Quotes

To a bibliophile, there is but one thing better than a box of new books, and that is a box of old ones.

I've got libraries in my blood.

I am simply a book drunkard.

We live for books.

I love books so much. I've read more books than anyone else I know.

I buy way too many books.

I'm not a great shopper but I do buy a lot of books. I'm the publishers' friend - I buy a hundred books a year and read four.

I was a reader before I was a writer - one of those kids who walked home from school with a book up to my face, about to fall in the proverbial pothole because I couldn't see where I was going. And now I'm one of those people whose books are triple shelved and who can't go anywhere without carrying two titles - one that I'm reading and one backup.

What can I say? I'm a book junkie.

I love books. Probably too much for my own good.

I can't exist without books.

But he who truly loves books loves all books alike, and not only this, but it grieves him that all other men do not share with him this noble passion. Verily, this is the most unselfish of loves!

I love an author the more for having been himself a lover of books.

I collect books, and I love libraries. I love bookstores. And to me meeting a writer is important. And when I saw a book with my name on it I almost passed out.

A taste for books, which is still the pleasure and glory of my life.

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.

From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.

Those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers.

In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.

She would bring you some great book because she was a book matchmaker, because she loved books the way other girls loved clothes.

I've always been a bookworm. As I mentioned, I moved around a lot, and one of the problems with being the new kid is it takes a while to make new friends. But I always had my books.

I even love the smell of books.

When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.

Of course I loved books more than people.

She is a real bookworm. I think she lives on print. Her whole house is full of books - looks as if she likes them better than human company.