Book Quote by M. F. K. Fisher

“Books are like a disease. Once you've got it, it's incurrable and lifelong”

— Janice Young Brooks

“For the last several days I've had the sudden and general urge to buy a new book. I've stopped off at a few bookstores…

— Lewis Buzbee

The literature of disease is more interesting to me than all the healthy books.

— T. E. Lawrence

“One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again ones emotions, to be master of them.”

— D.H. Lawrence

Great writers arrive among us like new diseases - threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.

— Craig Raine

I try to have each book be an antidote to the one before.

— Colson Whitehead

“I have this thing about books – a disease almost – that won’t let me give up until I’ve read to the end.”

— Nicola Haken

“When I picked up a book that I had read many times before, the words opened themselves up again. What I was unable to…

— Henning Mankell

I confess that I am a messy, disorganized and impatient reader: if the book doesn't grab me in the first 40 pages, I abandon…

— Isabel Allende

If people don't read, that's their choice; a lifelong book habit may itself be some sort of affliction.

— Penelope Lively

I was sick all the time, one exotic illness after another, which lasted throughout my twenties. My worst decade. But from the day the…

— Judy Blume

“What wild desires, what restless torments seize The hapless man, who feels the book-disease..." -”

— John Ferriar