Bibliophile Book Quotes

#1. 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

#2. There is nothing like the smell of books, both new and old. If someone ever bottled the smell, I would be all over it .

Tiffany King

#3. 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.

Frazier Glenn Miller

#4. As I look around the quiet room, I see a thousand leather covers like doorways into worlds unknown.

Laura Whitcomb

#5. A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography.

Karl Kraus

#6. She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding glue, and old paper, one book carrying the smell of hundreds.

Shannon Hale

#7. 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

#8. 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.

Sherman Alexie

#9. I do not believe in God. I have no religion. But this to me is as close to a church as I have known in this life. It is a holy place. With bookstores like this, I feel confident in saying that there will be a book business for a very long time.

Gabrielle Zevin

#10. He pinched the remaining chapters' pages delicately between his fingers and sighed. He always hated reaching the end of a good book.

David S.E. Zapanta

#11. 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

#12. There was nothing as romantic as the feel of a book in your hands.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#13. That must be something to discover a book that nobody's ever heard of or everybody thought was lost."
"It's every bibliophile's dream," said Francis, and Peter knew in a second that it was his own.

Charlie Lovett

#14. I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense.

Norman MacCaig

#15. Books and bottles breed generosity, and the bibliophile and the oenophile og through life scattering largesse from their libraries and cellars

Holless Wilbur Allen

#16. Life is paradoxical, but I believe that I could also be the same person I am today, if life would have cut me with happiness instead of pain.

Haidji

#17. A sea of dreams trapped in a span of pressed pages

Laura Whitcomb

#18. The chambermaid believed in courtly love. A book's physical self was sacrosanct to her, its form inseparable from its content; her duty as a lover was Platonic adoration, a noble but doomed attempt to conserve forever the state of perfect chastity in which it had left the bookseller.

Anne Fadiman