Bibliophiles Quotes

Literature takes us away from our grey everyday experience, but brings us back enriched with new sensibilities.

Willie van Peer

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.

I perceived quite early that I was a reader, and most of the people I came into contact with were not. It made a barrier. What they wanted to talk about were things they had eaten, touched, or done. What I wanted to talk about was what I had read.

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

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.

We live for books.