Gail Godwin Quotes

I can't exist without books.

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

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.

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

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

She had her addictions and one of them was reading.

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

I'm a voracious reader.

I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.

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.

My mother doesn't need much sleep. At any hour of the night, you'd wake up, and she'd be reading. She'd read five, six books a week. When we went on sailing trips, she'd bring a suitcaseful for the week. Even then, her office would have to send more.

I have been a voracious reader.

I'm always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply.

I am simply a book drunkard.

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

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

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.

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.

Since the age of five I had been one of those people who was an indefatigable reader, more inclined to go off by myself with a book than do any of the dozens of things that children usually do to amuse themselves. I never aged out of it.

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

I read a lot, that's my main hobby. I've got an iPad which I store books on and I read voraciously. I'm a slow reader but I'm obsessive. I make references, underline things, cross-reference. I'm an autodidact.

He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.

I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.

I read everything! I would have read the phone book if you put it in front of me. I just read.

I was horribly bookish, to the point of coming right out and saying it, which I knew was not socially acceptable. I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler.