Eugene Field Quotes

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

There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading.

This must be what an addict feels like, I think, trying to fight the pull of one last, quick read. My fingers itch toward the binding, and finally, with a sigh of regret, I just grab the book and open it, hungrily reading the story.

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'd much prefer my books to shoes...In the summer I sometimes take walks without shoes but never without a novel.

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.

If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

I can't exist without books.

I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page

Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.

The dearer a book was to my heart, the more battered and bruised it became.

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

And how shall I think of you?' He considered a moment and then laughed. 'Think of me with my nose in a book!

Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. "Book love," Trollope called it. "It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live." Yet of all the many things in which we recognize some universal comfort...reading seems to be the one in which the comfort is most undersung.

There are 10,000 books in my library, and it will keep growing until I die. This has exasperated my daughters, amused my friends and baffled my accountant. If I had not picked up this habit in the library long ago, I would have more money in the bank today; I would not be richer.

I can't imagine a home without an overflow of books. The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough, or the right one at the right moment, but then sometimes to find you'd longed to fall asleep reading the Aspern Papers, and there it is.

We live for books.

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

I hadn't had a book in my hands for four months, and the mere idea of a book where I could see words printed one after another, lines, pages, leaves, a book in which I could pursue new, different, fresh thoughts to divert me, could take them into my brain, had something both intoxicating and stupefying about it.

Of all things I liked books best.

My parents would frisk me before family events. Before weddings, funerals, bar mitzvahs, and what have you. Because if they didn't, then the book would be hidden inside some pocket or other and as soon as whatever it was got under way I'd be found in a corner. That was who I was...that was what I did. I was the kid with the book.

Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying new books. Whenever I walk into a bookstore and find a book on one of my hobbies — for example, Old English or Old Norse poetry — I say to myself, “What a pity I can’t buy that book, for I already have a copy at home.

I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.