I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage
MontesquieuTags: bibliophilia
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
Christopher MorleyTags: books bibliophilia
Open the book. (The gilt rubs off the edges of the pages and pollinates the fingertips.)
Elizabeth BishopTags: bibliophilia
Until you opened it, the book was nothing that an untrained eye would look twice at.
Geraldine BrooksTags: bibliophilia
Should he give free reign to his desires, the bibliomaniac can ruin his life along with the lives of his loved ones. He'll often take better care of his books than of his own health; he'll spend more on fiction than he does on food; he'll be more interested in his library than in his relationships, and, since few people are prepared to live in a place where every available surface is covered with piles of books, he'll often find himself alone, perhaps in the company of a neglected and malnourished cat. When he dies, all but forgotten, his body might fester for days before a curious neighbor grows concerned about the smell.
Mikita BrottmanTags: libraries reading books bibliophilia bibliophiles
We stopped to browse in the cases, and now that William - with his new glasses on his nose - could linger and read the books, at every title he discovered he let out exclamations of happiness, either because he knew the work, or because he had been seeking it for a long time, or finally because he had never heard it mentioned and was highly excited and titillated. In short, for him every book was like a fabulous animal that he was meeting in a strange land.
Umberto EcoTags: books bibliophilia
It's an old story, really: seduced and corrupted, in the end, by an obsessive love for the text.
Jack O'ConnellTags: bibliophilia
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 GaimanTags: bibliophilia readers-and-writers linguistics-love only-in-my-dreams
This is incredible. This is quite amazing because who you're honoring tonight is not only myself but the ghost of a lot of your favorite writers. And I wouldn't be here except that they spoke to me in the library. The library's been the center of my life. I never made it to college. I started going to the library when I graduated from high school. I went to the library every day for three or four days a week for 10 years and I graduated from the library when I was 28.
Ray BradburyTags: bibliophilia
Earlier that day, a typewriter bomb had exploded at a black market skin house over on Eel Street, sending words raining through the cardboard walls of the boudoirs and tattooing copies of the Machinist’s ‘Twelve Terms’ on the bodies of whores and patrons alike. Forty pieces of merch ruined. Their bodies had been obliterated by language, all traces of their sexuality buried beneath a storm of words. There was something horrific about the sight of those who had survived a typewriter attack. Their faces scarred with text, as if they had become hostages to some awful advertisement. A few of the victims took to working the streets around the library where bibliophiles sometimes paid them to satisfy their fantasies amid the desolate hush of the reading rooms and the deserted stacks where the only witnesses to this erotic pantomime of the blank body and its printed partner were other words.
Craig PadawerTags: bibliophilia sci-fi
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