Book Obsession

Table of Contents

• Book Addiction
• Books as Escape
• Books as Companions
• Books as Life-Changing
• Books and Learning
• Books and Writing
• Book Collections
• Books and Imagination
• Books as Necessity
• Other

Book Addiction

I have an increasingly powerful need for books, which throw a glimmer of light into my darkness.

Books gnaw at me from around the edges of my life, demanding more time and attention. I am always left hungry.

I read the fuck out of every book I can get my hands on.

Take my books away, and I should be desperate!

If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.

Books make me happy, the help me escape from reality.

Books are worse than wine, I say. You read one and you need another - there's no end to it. What ails you that you cannot content yourself with just living on under the sun?

I hunger for books, I search for knowledge.

It's hopeless! Tomorrow there'll be even more books I should have read than there are today.

Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read.

Books are my weakness.

The misery of having no time to read a thousand glorious books.

Books have ruined me for life.

Books as Escape

Books transport you out of reality and into a dream

When it's all too stupid out here,I hide in books.

The world is swirling with so many mysteries and secrets that nobody will ever track down all of them. But with a book you can stay up very late, reading until all the secrets are clear to you. The questions of the world are hidden forever, but the answers in a book are hiding in plain sight.

I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think...

I live within the world of books.

Books are adventures we can hold in our hands! Taking us to places that we only dreamed of.

Books were made for healing and learning and growing and completely removing yourself from real life and plopping down into a fantasy world.

I hunger for books, I search for knowledge.

Sometimes I get lost in the books, if they're good,

I think we all like to get away from our troubles and worries with a good book.

I have my books. I don’t live in the actual world.

Books are how I learned to disappear, to live in a world other than the uncomfortable physical one.

There’s nothing quite as good as folding up into a book and shutting the world outside.

Books as Companions

I prefer to be left alone with my books.

It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place

I am glad you have an hour for books, those enthralling friends, the immortalities...

Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.

If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas.

Now, I'm as appreciative as the next obsessive-compulsive recovering-academic of the vast riches of material becoming available online, thanks to all those Google scanners crouched in the basements of libraries around the world, madly feeding books through their machines. I download obscure tomes onto my iPad and give thanks to the dual gods Gates and Jobs, singing hymns to all the lesser pantheon of geniuses. But there's nothing like a book.

In the school library there’s an old Book Week poster that says ‘Get Lost in a Book.’ Well, we do that. We lose ourselves in books for hours and hours – books about all kinds of people and tons of different places. Then we come back, and we bring things with us. When we get lost like that, I think we find all kinds of cool stuff.

My books are about losers, about people who’ve lost their way and are engaged in a search.

It’s a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place.

Nowhere will you meet more interesting people than in books.

I want to study The book of the world: Every vanishing page.

I fear I lose myself among books. I forget everything.

Books as Life-Changing

But a vague hunger would come over me for books, books that opened up new avenues of feeling and seeing...

So many books have saved my life. I never quite imagined that a guidebook would

I’m afraid I’ll be a book that no one reads. Music that no one listens to anymore. I’m afraid I’ll be abandoned like a movie playing in an empty theater.

Because books saved my life, literally, I've become close to them

Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.

Books are becoming everything to me. If I had at this moment any choice in life, I would bury myself in one of those immense libraries...and never pass a waking hour without a book before me.

Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if those books have forced you to ask yourself questions about what makes life truthful, purposeful, meaningful, and redeeming, you have the Swiss Army Knife of mental tools, and it's going to come in handy all the time.

I’ve deprived my family in order to buy books. No doubt there is a special punishment in hell for such self-indulgence. Perhaps I shall be struck with blindness among the rarest known to men.

I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.

I sometimes look at my bookshelf now and think about how someday I’m going to die without ever reading a lot of the books there. And one might be life-changingly good and I’ll never know.

Books and Learning

Create the worlds of your choice by writing the books you want.

If there's something you would like to learn find a book, I'll never disappointed.

Books were made for healing and learning and growing and completely removing yourself from real life and plopping down into a fantasy world.

I was behind, but now I'm below. Hopefully, they'll have books wherever I go...

All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.

Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read.

I often wonder what I'd do if there weren't any books in the world.

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can’t do anything else, read all that you can.

I want to study The book of the world: Every vanishing page.

Books and Writing

One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk.

Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is.

Create the worlds of your choice by writing the books you want.

I can’t persuade myself that one of the problems facing the planet today might be a shortage of books by me,

But I hope I will never have a life that is not surrounded by books, by books that are bound in paper and cloth and glue, such perishable things for ideas have lasted thousands of years . . . I hope I am always walled in by the very weight and breadth and clumsy, inefficient, antiquated bulk of them, hope that I spend my last days on this Earth arranging and rearranging them on thrones of good, honest pine, oak, and mahogany, because I just like to look at their covers, and dream of the promise of the great stories inside.

If I loved all the world as I do you, I shouldn't write books to it: I should only write letters to it, and that would be only a clumsy stage on the way to entire telepathy.

What I do with my books is to create windows to my world that all may peer into. I share the images, the feelings and thoughts, and, I hope, the delight.

My books are about losers, about people who’ve lost their way and are engaged in a search.

But for me if I’m gonna read about something I’d rather read a pamphlet or the instructions to a synthesizer than a book on Buddhism.

Book Collections

You can't ever have my books.

Books seem to follow me home like stray cats.

I won't by any more books until I read the ones I already have." #LiesPeopleTellThemselves

Paperbacks make the world go round. Okay, maybe only my world. Either way paperbacks rock!

But I hope I will never have a life that is not surrounded by books, by books that are bound in paper and cloth and glue, such perishable things for ideas have lasted thousands of years . . . I hope I am always walled in by the very weight and breadth and clumsy, inefficient, antiquated bulk of them, hope that I spend my last days on this Earth arranging and rearranging them on thrones of good, honest pine, oak, and mahogany, because I just like to look at their covers, and dream of the promise of the great stories inside.

Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.

If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas.

Now, I'm as appreciative as the next obsessive-compulsive recovering-academic of the vast riches of material becoming available online, thanks to all those Google scanners crouched in the basements of libraries around the world, madly feeding books through their machines. I download obscure tomes onto my iPad and give thanks to the dual gods Gates and Jobs, singing hymns to all the lesser pantheon of geniuses. But there's nothing like a book.

I sometimes look at my bookshelf now and think about how someday I’m going to die without ever reading a lot of the books there. And one might be life-changingly good and I’ll never know.

Books and Imagination

Books are wishing stars fallen to Earth, waiting for people to live their dreams through reading.

Books pull you to other worlds ... let them, and enjoy the adventure.

The world is swirling with so many mysteries and secrets that nobody will ever track down all of them. But with a book you can stay up very late, reading until all the secrets are clear to you. The questions of the world are hidden forever, but the answers in a book are hiding in plain sight.

A book is the only vehicle that can take you around the world in one hour.

Books are adventures we can hold in our hands! Taking us to places that we only dreamed of.

Some books makes me want to go adventuring, others feel that they have saved me the trouble

Some books makes me want to go adventuring, others make me feel that they have saved me the trouble.

Books are how I learned to disappear, to live in a world other than the uncomfortable physical one.

In the school library there’s an old Book Week poster that says ‘Get Lost in a Book.’ Well, we do that. We lose ourselves in books for hours and hours – books about all kinds of people and tons of different places. Then we come back, and we bring things with us. When we get lost like that, I think we find all kinds of cool stuff.

Books as Necessity

Give up your thirst for books, so that you do not die a grouch.

Take my books away, and I should be desperate!

A book can take you to another land, even if just for a few hours. --Cat Spydell

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.

Give me a book. There is no present I care about but that.

No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker.

My lack of access to the real world has been replaced completely by books, and it can’t be healthy to live in a land of happily ever afters.

I’ve deprived my family in order to buy books. No doubt there is a special punishment in hell for such self-indulgence. Perhaps I shall be struck with blindness among the rarest known to men.

I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.

Other

Become a book, please.

Books make my world complete.

my books won't take me farinto this place

There are so many books to read. What a paradise!

I rely on a backbone of books and, for the most part, it's enough to keep me quiet, half-drugged with dreams of imaginary worlds.

People never stop making you read books. It's a sick world!

I wish you would read me like you read your books every day.

The world of books is the only paradise there is.

You're not a book person. And now you're not an internet person? What does that leave you?

I don't have time for invisible books when there are so many real books to read.

I've deprived my family in order to buy books. No doubt there is a special punishment in hell for such self-indulgence. Perhaps I shall be struck with blindness among the rarest known to men.

I am lost in the world of books. So many books to read.

Out here are books and magazines- asleep, carrying the entire world in them.

I LEAVEpoetryINLIBRARYBOOKS.

Set off on a quest to find someone who has read a book or many books and remains the same, and I can tell you with all certainty there is no one you will see.

My books have taken me around the world, but it's time I stepped from the pages, so I can see it for myself

I just want to stay away from people and read books.

Create worlds of your choice by writing the books you want.

Books are enchanted. Books help me travel. Books help me breathe.

If I had known the world was ending, I'd have brought better books.

I live in two worlds; one is a world of books

My school and my tribe are so poor and sad that we have to study from the same dang books our parents studied from. That is absolutely the saddest thing in the world.

I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.

But the feeling I have, you know, is that I'll never come close to reading all, or even a thousandth- a billionth- of the books I'd probably love if I ever got to them.

Choose a book, ... Any book. Bring it here, and I'll show you what else the world can offer.

Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.

I haven't made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books.

My only regret is that I signed away the world rights and in America they've been far and away my most successful books, but I never saw a cent from any of it.

There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.

Everybody knows by now that there's a gazillion books on me either out or coming out in the near future. So I'm encouraging anybody who's ever met me, heard me or even seen me, to get in on the action and scribble their own book. You never know, somebody might have a great book in them.

All of my books come from pain.

But for me if I'm gonna read about something I'd rather read a pamphlet or the instructions to a synthesizer than a book on Buddhism.

Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.

O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!

I buy a lot of books I've found via the Internet, whose existences I'd otherwise never have known about.

...what will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stumbling on things we never meant to find?

I am a product [...of] endless books.

I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.

There are so many books I mean to read, and things I mean to see.

My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search.

It’s hopeless! Tomorrow there’ll be even more books I should have read than there are today.

I don’t ever want to read a book with the word globe in it again.

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