Jami Attenberg Quotes

I don't love reading so much, but I love book shopping.

America is full of readers of all different sorts who love books in many different ways, and I keep meeting them. And I think editors should look after them, and make less effort to please people who don't actually like books.

I hate that bookstores are closing. Hate it! What's better than hanging out a bookstore, be it independent or chain, and talking books with people who love books?

I find booksellers comforting - they're my people.

I love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record.

Indie bookstores love writers as much as they love readers, and there is something about a community store, where you walk in, you feel known, and the delight in books is just infectious.

I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries.

Books look handsome and it's a real singular experience getting to go to a bookstore. I don't want to not do that.

I've always loved books.

Avid readers are enchanted by meaning, which is available chiefly in books.

I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time.

To come out and meet kids who have my books in their hands is kind of amazing.

I read reviews and consider myself pretty 'plugged in' to the literary cosmos, yet one of the things I love best about book-touring is the opportunity to compare notes with favorite booksellers around the country. I always come home with books by authors I'd never heard of - or books I've read about but didn't realize I might love.

I love the fact that 'Flowers for Algernon' is doing its part to get people reading.

My first date ever, I was kind of nervous, so I was like, 'I'm going to bring Brady to this walk on the beach with this girl,' and she was like, 'Oh my gosh, I have a King Charles Cavalier, too.' I'm like, 'Money, perfect, amazing.'

I'd love a signed first edition of 'City of Glass' by Paul Auster. My favourite book of all time.

As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.

I am a big book collector. I love books.

I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed reading and question the value of literature, either as entertainment or education, or believe that a love of books, and of fiction in particular, is sentimental or frivolous.

I love everything about books. I love the content, the way they look and even the lovely way they smell. I think a book collection says something about you as a person, and certainly my books are something I'd want to pass on for future generations.

Hardcover and paperback forever. Someone carve that into a tree.

Being at school, being who I am, being an athlete, it was hard to find people like me. There's not many athletes that can be at my level. That was kind of hard finding people who love something so much they want to keep on doing it.

When I was a child, I loved 'The Marble Faun' by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The reason I liked it was because it had a beautiful binding. When you're a kid, you like books because they're pretty to look at, and this one had a white calfskin cover and gold edges. That was enough to make me love it.

There are people out there who genuinely love literature, who genuinely love to read and read widely, who will never like, or even necessarily get, my books. That was a hard one to swallow, to not feel slighted by.

Brock Lesnar and I are as different as any two people can be. What drew us together was the love of the actual performance aspect of what we do.