Bill Moyers Quotes

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

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 long for books; I am utterly greedy about them.

I have a sweet tooth for reading, so books migrate to my zip code en mass.

When I came out, and for many years afterwards, it had become a habit for me to sit and read and read and read, like an obsession. I would take 20 books, and not come out until I'd finished them. It took me a while to change that habit.

I love books that create worlds for me that I don't want to leave. I recently lost my entire life to Haruki Murakami - 1Q84. I tell people that book ruined my life in the best possible way. I couldn't think of anything else for weeks after I read it.

I would rather be dead than not read

I am not man or beast; I am bibliosexual, and a seedy bibliosexual who haunts the streets, laden with carrier bags held by blistered fingers, stooping under the weight of the rucksack that has brought on sciatica and a Dickensian demeanour.

Once I start reading something, I can't stop. I obsessively read, which is a problem with long books!

Like many people, I am addicted to the physical act of reading.

Books are my weakness.

I consume an enormous number of books, but they're always on a particular subject because I'm obsessive.

When I was young, I was reading anything and anything I could lay my hands on. I was a veracious-to-the-point-of-insane reader.

I've read the 'Mortal Instruments' series; I was obsessed with those.

A glimpse at my night stand gives the mostly true impression that I am a book hoarder.

I'm a voracious reader - I always have a book on the go and read for at least half an hour, usually more, every night.

The thing about reading is that if you are hooked, you're not going to stop just because one series is over; you're going to go and find something else.

I read just endlessly, ceaselessly, almost every book, it seems!

When someone says they've read your book 15 times, you think, 'Well, you should read something else.'

Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.

I used to steal from the library, which is a crime and it's bad, but I just couldn't get enough books, and I also didn't like to give them back once I'd read them. I just read everything.

Books are like chocolate. Can't eat just one.

There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it should be no easy matter for an intelligent reader to lay down that book unfinished. There is a pardonable impression among reviewers that half an hour in its company is sufficient.

I read a lot. I always have, but in those two years I gorged myself on books with a voluptuous, almost erotic gluttony. I would go to the local library and take out as many as I could, and then lock myself in the bedsit and read solidly for a week. I went for old books, the older the better - Tolstoy, Poe, Jacobean tragedies, a dusty translation of Laclos - so that when I finally resurfaced, blinking and dazzled, it took me days to stop thinking in their cool, polished, crystalline rhythms.

I can't exist without books.