67 Quotes About Bibliophile

Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

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.

The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.

What's a horizon?' Lazlo asked, straight-faced. 'Is it like the end of an aisle of books?

I spent much of my prison time reading. I must have read over 200 large books, mostly fictional stories about the American pioneers, the Vikings, Mafia, etc. As long as I was engrossed in a book, I was not in prison. Reading was my escape.

A library should fill our leisure with adventure. It is a refuge from the commonplace and the dull, a sanctuary where all the trials, the tribulations, and the boredoms of the outer world are forbidden and where such an evil thing as a tax-collector may be forgotten and, peradventure, forgiven.

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.

A reader is a traveler who doesn't have to move while travelling!

Bookworms love to say, there is no friend as loyal as a book. I say, if your knowledge of all those books doesn’t come to any use of the people around you, then there’s no creature as selfish as you.