Quotes About Bibliophilia

#1. I try to satisfy the desires that people have to have their books personalized. That's a value, or feature, of bibliophilia that may vanish. How do you get your e-book signed? The idea of people standing in line to get my signature in their book, it's hard to turn them away.

Chris Van Allsburg

#2. I need to return briefly to a few incidents that have grown into anecdotes, to some approximate memories which time has deformed into certainty.

Julian Barnes

#3. Shoot. I feel guilty for peeing. That first bottle of wine alone was almost two hundred dollars.

Tina Reber

#4. My own opinion is that just as fundamentally man and woman are one, their problems must be one in essence.

Mahatma Gandhi

#5. I can't dance anymore. Total knee replacements. I can't do anything anymore.

Annie Dillard

#6. Books exist for me not as physical entities with pages and binding, but in the province of my mind.

Sara Sheridan

#7. When the soul-penetrating pathos she was beaming at me failed to prevent me from continuing to put things in boxes, the helper dog became increasingly alarmed. Over the ensuing few days, she slowly descended into psychological chaos. The simple dog remained unfazed.

Allie Brosh

#8. The book is the precious material expression of a past emotion, or the chance of having one in years to come, and to get rid of it would bring the risk of a serious sense of loss. (p. 28)

Jacques Bonnet

#9. By way of this unprecedented, unbridled literary promiscuity, I have made some pleasant discoveries.

Anna Lyndsey

#10. Things turn up in strange places all the time. For example library books, which possess a disconcerting ability to move from place to place, seemingly of their own volition.

Lauren Willig

#11. I believe that what is really important is that God can speak to us. If we have the humility to approach him in prayer with the right attitude, he can speak to our intelligence directly.

Henry Eyring

#12. A good rule of thumb is: Pack twice as many books as changes of underwear.

Michael Dirda

#13. Until you opened it, the book was nothing that an untrained eye would look twice at.

Geraldine Brooks

#14. Chantal is having a relationship with a sentence. Just one of those things. A chance meeting that grew into something important for the both of them.

Neil Gaiman

#15. It is important to integrate immigrants into society and to welcome them in the church community

Pope Francis

#16. Our goal as adults is not to love all books alike, or as few as possible, but rather to love as widely and as well as our limited selves will allow.

Alan Jacobs

#17. Open the book. (The gilt rubs off the edges of the pages and pollinates the fingertips.)

Elizabeth Bishop

#18. The memory of a tone, the rhythm of an author's sentences, the sorrow we felt on a novel's last page
perhaps that is all that we can expect to keep from books.

Michael Dirda

#19. There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

Christopher Morley

#20. Heaven is not to be looked upon only as the reward, but the natural effect, of a religious life.

Joseph Addison

#21. He flicked through the yellowed rough-cut pages and breathed its musty smell. It filled him with a strange excitement, as if he'd caught a whiff of ancient, buried cities.

Joan London

#22. After you finish a book, the story still goes on in your mind. You can never change the beginning. But you can always change the end.

Sarah Addison Allen

#23. I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage

Charles De Secondate

#24. My diary seems to keep me whole.

Anais Nin