Patti Smith Book Quotations

I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf.

I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.

I wanted to go to Portland because it's a really good book town.

When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them.

Just because I've extricated myself from religion doesn't mean I'm not interested in the scriptures. I look at the Bible as itself. It's a holy book, it has incredible literature in it and beautiful poetry.

The only parts I like out of any of those women books is the dirty parts. But I don't think their dirty parts are any good, really.

I like making records right now 'cause I can express myself that way in a very immediate, physical sense. You can always write a book, but you can't always do a rock 'n' roll record that's gonna work.

I want to keep my life as unfettered as possible. So maybe I'll just pretend to get rare books from my catalogue, and not really get them.

I know from an early age that I'm very comfortable in front of people. When I was a young girl, I'd love giving book reports.

Please, no matter how we advance technologically , please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book." (Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010)

I wanted to see who this Yeats person was, and I said to my mother, 'I want a book by this person.' And she bought it for me, and a lot of it was over my head, but I had it.

I immersed myself in books and rock 'n' roll, the adolescent salvation ...

The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.

I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.