Caroline Dhavernas Quotes

I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read.

I think, basically, what I'm good for is reading - a lot. I think I'll always be more of a reader than a writer, definitely. There are sooo many books in the world I haven't read, sometimes I feel as if they're all piled on top of my head weighing me down and saying, 'Hurry up.'

One of the maddening ironies of writing books is that it leaves so little time for reading others'. My bedside is piled with books, but it's duty reading: books for book research, books for review. The ones I pine for are off on a shelf downstairs.

I always have several books on the go at any one moment, so it's no good you asking 'What's on the bedside table at the moment, Emma?' because often I can't even see the table!

There are so many books I want to read. Difficult books. That's what I intend to do and what I'm longing for.

Book stores drive me insane because I know that I will never be able to read everything I want to in my lifetime.

What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?

Books, in the plural lose their solidity of substance and become a gas, filling all available space.

To read too many books is harmful.

None of us, of course, will ever read all the books we'd like, but we can still make a stab at it.

I buy way too many books.

There are, I'm depressed to say, many classics I have not yet read and will probably never get around to, though I will not stop short of hospitalizing myself in the attempt.

I can never leave a bookstore without buying a book. I read four or five at a time.

I love reading; I really enjoy it. I read books quite fast, which kind of annoys me, but I like it at the same time because I can read a book in a day.

I spent many hours ensconced in the local library, reading - nay, devouring - book after book after book. Books were my soul's delight.

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

I buy thousands of books a year.

My whole thing is, I collect what I know I want to read, and I have certain bookshelves in my bedroom that contain all the books I haven't read yet.

I spend a frightening amount of money on books.

Books are my weakness.

I'm an inveterate bookstore wanderer. I read constantly, so I love a good bookstore. I can't help it.

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

I was a library rat and a bookworm. I read all the time. I walked to school reading books. I read under my desk.

I just finished my 11th book last week, so I'm ready to start the next one.

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.