I have to admit that I am really partial to the look and feel of a book. I have been that way my entire life.
The printed page was like wine to me.
I get crazy in a bookstore. It makes my heart beat hard because I want to buy everything.
The greatest gift is a passion for reading.
I love rare books. Not that I own a lot of them, mind you. You couldn't quite call me a rare-book collector. But I did once work in a rare-books library, and I wrote a novel about a rare book.
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'm obsessed with books.
I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.
I love bookstores. I love the energy in a bookstore and the smell of the paper.
You've got to love libraries. You've got to love books. You've got to love poetry. You've got to love everything about literature. Then, you can pick the one thing you love most and write about it.
A bibliomaniac is one to whom books are like bottles of whiskey to the inebriate, to whom anything that is between covers has an intoxicating savor.
I still love the book-ness of books, the smell of books: I am a book fetishist—books to me are the coolest and sexiest and most wonderful things there are.
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.
When a book is alive, really alive, you feel it. You put it to your ear here, and you feel it breathe, sometimes laugh, sometimes cry, just like a person, a little person.
I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book.
I never met a librarian worth his or her salt who didn't perceive my passion for books.
The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers.
I have this obsession with really cool, old books.
The one constant in my life has been my love of books: reading them, thinking about them, talking about them, holding them, turning people on to new ones.
I have always been reconciled to the fact that I was born a bibliomaniac, never have I sought a cure, and my dearest friends have been drawn from those likewise suffering from book madness.
My passion for books has changed my life.
I'm a book nerd, and I've seen authors that I love, I've gone and seen them speak or read from a book.
I think the most important lesson isn't necessarily to try and write a different book every time, or to try and brand yourself and write one specific kind of book, but to write the kind of books you love to read.
The fans that I have met so far have been nothing but supportive and extremely passionate about the books. I feel so honored to meet all these people. Something like this, which I think is bigger than anyone in the film, it's pretty crazy.
My criteria for what makes a book an official 'favorite,' is based almost entirely on how desperately I don't want the story to end.
