an ardent reader, a bookworm;
Latin : biblio : book, phage : a thing that devours
BIBLIOPHILE :
a lover of books, a person collects books, book fancier,
French, from bibli- + -phileBOOKWORM :
someone who loves books for their content, or otherwise loves reading
The opposite of bibliophobia = abibliophobia :
the general fear of running out of reading material.
“A book is like a garden carried around in the pocket.”
~ Chinese Proverb“Anyone who has a library and a garden wants for nothing.”
~ Cicero
“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.”
“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.”
~ Francis Bacon
“A good book should leave you slightly exhausted at the end. You should live several lives while reading it.”
“A good book should leave you slightly exhausted at the end. You should live several lives while reading it.”
~ William Styron
“A good book has no ending.”
“A good book has no ending.”
~ R. D. Cumming
“My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter.”
“My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter.”
~ Thomas Helm
“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
~ Bertrand Russell
“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.”
~ Groucho Marx
