Quotes & Sayings About Bibliophiles

I prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

[I] read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them. — Simon Van Booy

This was, I thought, the language of shy men, men too much alone with their reading and their ideas - politics, war, distant countries, tyrants. Men who would bury their heads in such stuff just to avert their eyes from a woman's simple heartache. — Alice McDermott

I was first published as a paranormal author back in the early 1990s. I was one of the founders of that original wave of paranormal and am the leader of the new wave of paranormal that started at the beginning of this century. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs. — Anne Fadiman

Visiting Specialty Books was like living in an episode of Extreme Hoarders: Bibliophiles. — Molly Harper

Bookstores, libraries ... they're the closest thing I have to a church. — Jim C. Hines

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. What I wanted to talk about was what I had read. — Frederik Pohl

I am not a bibliophile but a humanophile: I look for rare human beings. — Natalie Clifford Barney

The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more. — Patricia A. McKillip

We lusty bibliophiles know that reading, unlike just about anything else, is both good for you and loads of fun. — Kevin Smokler

I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey. — H.L. Mencken

British garden history is best understood as a small incident in the histories of ideas, design and technology. — Tom Turner

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts. — Garry Winogrand

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. — Carol Shields

My husband and I are huge bibliophiles. He's always reading 'The New York Times Book Review' and then ordering 20 books online. — Carrie Coon

I find myself trying to explain more, and explain the perspective of my mentality, or the mentality I'm trying to convey. — Pusha T

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 more on fiction than he does on food; he'll be more interested in his library than in his relationships, and, since few people are prepared to live in a place where every available surface is covered with piles of books, he'll often find himself alone, perhaps in the company of a neglected and malnourished cat. When he dies, all but forgotten, his body might fester for days before a curious neighbor grows concerned about the smell. — Mikita Brottman

I do not just buy books; I collect them with the idea that they fit into a pattern of knowledge. — Omar Saif Ghobash

But now books and men had gone their separate ways. Who has the patience for a book? Only a book. — John M. Keller

No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up. — Lily Tomlin

Nevertheless we cherish all books, especially the unread ones, for who knows what secrets they might yield one day?
- p.397, as by Larry Zagorski, in his short story "The City of the Sun — Jake Arnott

If we listen, we shall learn. — Lailah Gifty Akita

For me, every book is an individual with its own identity and has to be nurtured and taken care
of, so that it may survive for a longer period. — Anurag Shourie

For the longest time I was so sick I didn't have the strength or inclination to read, but looking at my books stacked up on the bedside table was comforting, like having old friends sitting in the room with me, friends who didn't require anything of me, friends who brought me great pleasure just with their presence, waiting until I could engage with them again.... bibliophiles know the inanimate pleasure of the friendship with books. — Lindsey O'Connor

Mom and Dad were bibliophiles. Dad shared his father's love of westerns, Mom favored the likes of Zelazny and Heinlein, Howard and Burroughs. We owned several hundred books stored in trunks that comprised our portable library. — Laird Barron

You can't be idealistic in this world and not be crazy. — John Zorn

I said. "But there are bibliophiles the world over it would reduce to tears of joy." No exaggeration. Harley's [book] collection's worth a million-six ... — Glen Duncan

Be who you want to be and not care about what others think. — Andy Biersack

Never ask a ninja if she can jump - it's degrading. — Rachel Van Dyken

To a bibliophile, there is but one thing better than a box of new books, and that is a box of old ones. — Will Thomas

We live for books. — Umberto Eco

Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed. — Anne Rice

I don't want to be happy. I just want to change the world. — Aaron Swartz

"One of the best things about marijuana legalization: "I think the black market has been damaged. I think people are willing to pay taxes and to go through pretty rigorous regulation." — John Hickenlooper

Literature takes us away from our grey everyday experience, but brings us back enriched with new sensibilities. — Willie Van Peer

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 magic?) — Jo Walton

Faith can remove a mountain, but doubt can put it back in place again — Tage Danielsson

You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can. — Junot Diaz

But as it turned out, the two had a great deal in common, for both Bailey and Thackeray (named for the famous novelist William Makepeace Thackeray, author of Vanity Fair) were devoted bibliophiles who believed that "a book a day kept the world at bay," as Thackeray was fond of saying. Bailey was the offspring of a generation of badgers who insisted that "Reader" was the most rewarding vocation to which a virtuous badger might be called and who gauged their week's anticipated pleasure by the height of their to-be-read pile. (Perhaps you know people like this. I do.) — Susan Wittig Albert