Literary Affection Quotes

The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.

Norbert Blei is a writer the way people used to be troubadours and minstrels, celebrating what he has seen and heart and felt in a deceptively simple style reminiscent of the early Sherwood Anderson. . . . Like Anderson, he is a lover, and his affection invests his writing with a singular charm.

I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful.

That's right, I am a book kisser.

I grabbed my book and opened it up. I wanted to smell it. Heck, I wanted to kiss it. Yes, kiss it. That's right, I am a book kisser. Maybe that's kind of perverted or maybe it's just romantic and highly intelligent.

I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.

The love I knew was from books.

You love each book. They're your children.

I have said before, and I shall say again, that I write this book for love of your love.

Pet Sematary' is one of my favorite books of Stephen King and I have a deep love relationship with it.

I grew up kissing books and bread.

Oh, friend, forget not, when you fain would note In me a beauty that was never mine, How first you knew me in a book I wrote, How first you loved me for a written line.