Book Craving Quotes

I read constantly. If I don't have a good book, I'm beside myself.

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

I long for books; I am utterly greedy about them.

I need words and print... I need print like an addict. I could live without it, perhaps. But I hope I never have to try.

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

I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.

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.

Books are like chocolate. Can't eat just one.

Every once in a while, a book so possesses me that I happily give up a couple of consecutive nights of sleep - as well as the evening news broadcasts and latenight talk shows - to finish it. That's what happened when I opened the novel 'Shadow Tag' by Louise Erdrich.

I guess there are never enough books.

A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.