13 quotes found
“you are a lover of the wordsa soul mate to the storyeverything becomes a part of youfrom my fingertips to your eyesfrom my heart to yours”
“But now books and men had gone their separate ways. Who has the patience for a book? Only a book.”
“Literature takes us away from our grey everyday experience, but brings us back enriched with new sensibilities.”
“I'm so glad I have my own copy. I can read them again and again. I can read them again and again on trains, all my life, and every time I do I'll remember today and it will connect up. (Is that mag...”
“We live for books.”
“The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.”
“[I] read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.”
“Should he give free reign to his desires, the bibliomaniac can ruin his life along with the lives of his loved ones. He'll often take better care of his books than of his own health; he'll spend mo...”
“Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository prose.”
“I perceived quite early that I was a reader, and most of the people I came into contact with were not. It made a barrier. What they wanted to talk about were things they had eaten, touched, or done...”
“...bookstores, libraries... they're the closest thing I have to a church.”
“I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.”
