Book Enthusiasts Quotes

There are books all around me... I don't read as much as I used to, but I always have a book or two going.

I'm one of those freaky people that actually reads books.

His eyes gravitated towards the wall-to-wall bookshelf at one end of the room. 'You folks like books, I see.

They're book addicts.

I never met a librarian worth his or her salt who didn't perceive my passion for books.

Our clients' faces, with the customary outward paleness and inner glow of the book lover.

Seeing that we were book enthusiasts, my mother began hauling my sister and me down to the Stanton Free Library on Tuesday afternoons, where I'd find two or three books to bring home.

I consider as lovers of books not those who keep their books hidden in their store-chests and never handle them, but those who, by nightly as well as daily use thumb them, batter them, wear them out, who fill out all the margins with annotations of many kinds, and who prefer the marks of a fault they have erased to a neat copy full of faults.

If I walk into a place, a party, say, and there's a bookshelf, I immediately gravitate toward it. Unless there's a bar. But even then, it's only a matter of a few rounds before I make my way to the bookshelf. If there are good books on it, I may never leave the spot all night. Anybody I really want to talk to is going to make his or her way to that bookshelf sooner or later, anyway, right? Books are a nexus. They start conversations, and they continue conversations, and they make people better conversationalists. I have not found this to be the case with Iron Chef, or even alcohol.

I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari.

Of course I always like going to bookstores, but at stores, you're mostly meeting kids who are already into reading.

I think, to give our bookshelf a little credit, our area of the library and the bookstore has attracted stronger writers as it's started to thrive.

Book collecting is a largely solitary, mostly male, and completely absorbing activity.

The 'Backlisted' podcast describes itself as 'giving new life to old books'. In each episode, John Mitchinson and Andy Miller are joined by a guest from the world of books who brings along some overlooked gem to enthuse about.

It may be that the most avid readers of new fiction in America today are film producers, an indication of the trouble were in.

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.

sometimes after I finished a particularly good book, I had the urge to get the library card, find out who else had read the book, and track them down to talk about it

I was never a fan of anything, and yet some people are fans of my books. That's a bit odd. But I like meeting them.