Bibliophiles Love Quotes & Sayings

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

Our I love yous encompass years of heartache, of hurt, of laughter and pain. And every time we say the words, I feel the rush of our childhood. I couldn't imagine ever losing that. — Becca Ritchie

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

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends. — Ambrose Bierce

Any child born into the hugely consumptionist way of life so common in the industrial world will have an impact that is, on average, many times more destructive than that of a child born in the developing world. — Al Gore

Mm-mm, no, thank you, no, I don't want an enchilaaadaaa. Nor do I want a burr-eye-to. Or a tay-co. Or any other bizarre, unneccessary vowel substitutions. — Greg Proops

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

If we didn't have shadow we'd just sit around loving the light, likely doing nothing with it. — S. Kelley Harrell

Despair wasn't a guest, you didn't play its favorite music, find it a comfortable chair. Despair was the enemy. It — Janet Fitch

You did yourself ill to feel well of those to whom ill must eventually be done. — Stephen King