#book-lovers

"Books were safer than other people anyway."

"Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries."

"The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more."

"[I] read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them."

"Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person."

"Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what sense other people have made of it. If people give you a hard time and tell you to get your nose out of a book, tell them you're working. Tell them it's research. Tell them to pipe down and leave you alone."

"I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours."

"We live for books."

"People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned."

"I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the day."(Interview with The Booklovers blog, September 2010)"