Book Junkie Quotes

#1. I did my time in the jail of your arms

Tom Waits

#2. I'd curl up with a good romance book with my current book boyfriend and pretend the real world didn't exist for a little while.

Jen McLaughlin

#3. When my own writing needs a perk, I open Zukofsky and read from "A" - particularly sections "22" and "23." It can be opaque, but I love the intensity.

Stephen Vincent Benet

#4. I'm not equipped to handle what she has, both good and bad and what she has is always a package deal of both. In other words, I've been assigned a load I can handle.

Lysa TerKeurst

#5. Dave was a confirmed serotonin junkie. Any day of the year, he chose a good book, a hot cupper, and air-conditioning over jeopardy to life and limb.

Dan Sofer

#6. Forget organized religions. Forget scriptures. Forget Gods, Fathers, Sons and Spirits. Forget all dogmas taught by the representatives of theoretical religion, and then only you shall be able to visualize the true core of religion.

Abhijit Naskar

#7. I still think about the writers I loved when I was a kid.

Dan Chaon

#8. Love is a funny thing. It's not at all what you expect it to be. But if you have to stand out on the corner to prove it, then maybe it's better not to be in love at all. - excerpt from: freefalling

Darlenne Susan Girard

#9. I don't expend my energy trying to fight the change of seasons. I focus on making sure the days I have, and the season I oversee, are as joyful, rich, and plentiful as possible.

Rick Riordan

#10. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeonholes.

Alfred Kinsey

#11. One life to read!

Nakia R. Laushaul

#12. Those who share my heroes are, in the deepest sense, of my own kind.

Rebecca Goldstein

#13. William Dalrymple called me a war junkie in his silly book. No, I don't have a desire for it. I'm appalled and infuriated by it.

Robert Fisk

#14. When I go into the studio, I completely detach. I let my emotions come out.

Sade Adu