My love of books was all that saved me.

a love for good books was one of the best safeguards a man could have,

Well, actually, I love books because books are my best friends.

Of all things, I liked books best.

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

Some say they get lost in books, but I find myself, again and again, in the pages of a good book. Humanly speaking, there is no greater teacher, no greater therapist, no greater healer of the soul, than a well-stocked library.

Les livres que j'aimais devinrent une Bible où je puisais des conseils et des secours.

From early youth I endeavored to read books in the right way and I was fortunate in having a good memory and intelligence to assist me.

I discovered books and read forever

As a boy I was saved from a life of ignorance by my little hometown library.
As a college student I was educated in the
stacks of the Swarthmore library. And as an adult I use libraries daily in my search for the facts and the enlightenment I use in writing my books.
In fact, I like libraries so much that I
married a librarian.

These books are my friends, my companions.

"Rosemary, why do you love books so much?"
(...)
"Well, actually, I love books because books are my best friends."

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].

The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.