Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading.
I'm one of those freaky people that actually reads books.
I was that kid with the glasses and the hungry expression who haunted every library book sale and used bookstore in town: the one who always has a book in one hand and is reaching for the next book with the other. There's one in every town.
I spent my entire childhood feeling like a freak because I liked to read. It's just like, "Eh, no one else likes to read but me; I must be crazy!"
I was a kid who lived to read. It was the primary pleasure of my existence. It's still one of the primary pleasures of my existence. It's where I draw my sustenance.
I loved to read, and if I could've been a professional reader, that's probably what I would've wanted to be!
I never met a librarian worth his or her salt who didn't perceive my passion for books.
A little-known fact about me: I read all the time.
My wife calls me the Imelda Marcos of books. As soon as a book enters our home it is guaranteed a permanent place in our lives. Because I have never been able to part with even one, they have gradually accumulated like sediment.
He spent his life immersed in books to the cost of everything else, even personal relationships. "Friends," he'd once said, "are probably great, but I have forty thousands friends of my own already, and each of them needs my attention.
I love an author the more for having been himself a lover of books.
A taste for books, which is still the pleasure and glory of my life.
I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.
My perfect reader doesn't just read - he or she devours books.
Close friends consider me a literary snob.
She is a real bookworm. I think she lives on print. Her whole house is full of books - looks as if she likes them better than human company.
I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.
I was the kid who read a lot and who was academic, and who was more of an indoor person than an outdoor person. I would win the summer reading contest at the library.
I collect books, and I love libraries. I love bookstores. And to me meeting a writer is important. And when I saw a book with my name on it I almost passed out.
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.
Those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers.
I have become an enthusiast for the printed word again. I have to be that, I now understand, because I want to be a character in all of my works. I can do that in print. In a movie, somehow, the author always vanishes.
I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy
The best booksellers are like trustworthy pushers: Whatever they're dealing, you take it.
She would bring you some great book because she was a book matchmaker, because she loved books the way other girls loved clothes.
