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 have to admit that I am really partial to the look and feel of a book. I have been that way my entire life.
Reading is such a huge part of my life.
The greatest gift is a passion for reading.
We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.
When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.
I was never without a book in my hand.
I was always fond of books right since my childhood days. Even as a teenager, books were my company. Not that I did not have friends, but books kept my occupied most of the time.
I'm a reading addict. I can't live without it, like someone who is addicted to drugs.
I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I’m like that. If I stop reading, I die.
Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
Since the age of five I had been one of those people who was an indefatigable reader, more inclined to go off by myself with a book than do any of the dozens of things that children usually do to amuse themselves. I never aged out of it.
I cannot live without reading.
I was a reader. I loved reading. Reading things gave me pleasure. I was very good at most subjects in school, not because I had any particular aptitude in them, but because normally on the first day of school they'd hand out schoolbooks, and I'd read them--which would mean that I'd know what was coming up, because I'd read it.
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.
An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me. Really, I believe that an entire life spent reading would have suited me best. Such a life has not been granted me.
I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare.
I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.
Having a family that loves books and loves to read has always created a common ground for communication.
From that moment on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again.
My religion is complicated. Literature is my true religion. After all, I come from a completely non-religious family.
But I read Catching Fire. I loved disappearing into a story.
Book-love, I say again, lasts throughout life, it never flags or fails, but, like Beauty itself, is a joy forever.
I'm afraid I've degenerated into a bibliophile.
I love books and the latest autobiographies. I'm a Gemini and love being with people, but then again, I love my own company, which is when I read most.
