Addiction Quote by Gail Carriger

I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to…

— Gail Carriger

Each my book feels like my last book. And then I think, like a dedicated alcoholic, that one more won't do me any harm.

— John le Carre

...maybe I've just read too many novels. In novels, alcoholics are always attractive and fuuny and charming and complex, like Sebastian Flyte or ABe…

— David Nicholls

“Reading a book is like having the ability to dip a straw into the author’s soul and sip and slurp without lowering the water…

— Jarod Kintz

“I admit I'm an escapist when it comes to books. I become drunk on story, on words, as a buffer against reality.' . .…

— Joanna Davidson Politano

“There are people who read books, and then there are people who define their lives by the books they have read and by the…

— Jeffrey Keeten

I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.

— Anonymous

A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.

— Anonymous

Reading a book is like having the ability to dip a straw into the authors soul and sip and slurp without lowering the water…

— Ash Sweeney

A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

— Angela Carter

I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.

— Anonymous

At the same time, I think books create a sort of network in the reader's mind, with one book reinforcing another. Some books form…

— Margaret Mahy