Bibliophile Books Quotes

#1. 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

#2. A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.

William Lyon Phelps

#3. To think that she had read the same elegiac prose he now beheld with such quiet awe made his heart sing.

David S.E. Zapanta

#4. George, if you ever break the spine of one of my books, I want you to know that you might as well be breaking my own spine.

Anne Fadiman

#5. Suddenly, Walter was aware of all the things he did not know. There were hundreds--thousands--of books in the world, and he had read only a handful of them. One day he would die, a myriad of books unread, his knowledge of the world incomplete.

Barbara Wersba

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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.

Voltaire

#9. Done to death by books? There were worse ways to go, even if you weren't a bibliophile.

Martin Edwards

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

Laura Whitcomb

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

Kevin Smokler

#12. Books are carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. They are engines of change, windows of the world, lighthouses erected in the sea of time.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#13. 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

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

Gustave Flaubert

#15. For all her faults, it was actually my mom who instilled in me a love of reading, and books, for which I will always be grateful. She's a complete bibliophile, so I've pretty much grown up around libraries and books.

Paula Gruben

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. sometimes stories and books are all that we need to take us away

Susan Ornbratt

#19. A serious bibliophile never lends his books. In fact he does not even read his books, for fear of wearing them out.

Gerard De Nerval

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. She was a bibliophile - she would be perfectly happy never talking to another human being again as long as she had books to read.

Brenda L. Harper

#23. Not anymore. I'm afraid I've degenerated into a bibliophile."
"A what?" asked Eragon.
"One who loves books," explained Jeod.

Christopher Paolini

#24. The bibliophile is the master of his books, the bibliomaniac their slave.

Henry Ward Beecher

#25. 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

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

Laini Taylor

#27. As any avid reader knew, a good read deserved a good seat.

David S.E. Zapanta

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

Holless Wilbur Allen

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

Laura Whitcomb

#30. 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