Book Lovers Addiction Quotes

Quotes tagged as "book-lovers-addiction" Showing 1-7 of 7
“Some books you read and savor. Some, you carry close to your heart.”
S.R. McKade

Eric Overby
“Coffee in the dawn
With books open like our hearts,
Our weekend ritual”
Eric Overby, 17: Haiku Poems

Regina O'Melveny
“...it was my father who had taught me to love books for themselves, the smell of the vellum and paper, the rare authority of the pages. "Here, do you see this marvelous book, the skins of 182 sheep," he once pronounced as he slapped his hand down on the stamped leather cover boards. "The book is a flock, a jewel, a cemetery, a lantern, a garden, a piss pot; pigments ground of precious minerals, charred bone, lamp soot, rare plants and insects. Pigments formed at the corrosion of copper plates suspended above urine.”
Regina O'Melveny, The Book of Madness and Cures

John Clellon Holmes
“But all I could think of was taking some books to read in jail. I held everybody up, choosing which ones to take.”
John Clellon Holmes, Go

“A life without books is like body without a soul.”
Lailah Gifty Akita