Book Collecting Quotes

#1. Book collecting is a full-time occupation, and one wouldn't get far if one took time off for frivolities like reading.

A.N.L. Munby

#2. Book collecting! First editions and best editions; old books and new books - the ones you like and want to have around you. Thousands of 'em. I've had more honest satisfaction and happiness collecting books than anything else I've ever done in life.

Peter Ruber

#3. Digital texts are all well and good, but books on shelves are a presence in your life. As such, they become a part of your day-to-day existence, reminding you, chastising you, calling to you. Plus, book collecting is, hands down, the greatest pastime in the world.

Michael Dirda

#4. My little hobby. Book Collecting. And yet, old friends, books do not age as you and I do. They will speak still when we are gone, to generations we will never see. Yes, the books must survive. -Bulldog

Corrie Ten Boom

#5. In nature, the bird who gets up earliest catches the most worms, but in book collecting the prizes fall to birds who know worms when they see them.

Michael Sadleir

#6. I hold that book-collecting is the best of indoor sports, and I think I can provide proof; at any rate, I shall try.

A. Edward Newton

#7. Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.

Jeanette Winterson

#8. The world of [comic book] collecting is not a pretty place. For a bunch of guys who like good-over-evil stories, you sure meet a lot of morally bankrupt assholes.

Seth

#9. After love, book collecting is the most exhilarating sport of all.

A. S. W. Rosenbach

#10. Nobody ever wrote a good book simply by collecting a number of accurate facts and valid ideas.

Rebecca West

#11. I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic. I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing.

Alan Ritchson

#12. I hold a theory that, sooner or later, if a man but live long enough, certain books destined for his peculiar delight will find him, however obscure they or he may be.

Vincent Starrett

#13. To librarians, booksellers, and collectors there is nothing limited in the subject of books about books.

Leona Rostenberg

#14. As book collectors know all too well: We only regret our economies, never our extravagances.

Michael Dirda

#15. My only dream is to get old and finally have time to read all the books that I'm collecting.

Gianni Versace

#16. Show some respect. They were your grandparents. -Batman
Just names and dusty frames on the wall to me. -Damien
I take exception to that. There is not a speck of dust collecting on those portraits. -Alfred

Peter J. Tomasi

#17. To build up a library is to create a life. It's never just a random collection of books.

Carlos Maria Dominguez

#18. The book is the precious material expression of a past emotion, or the chance of having one in years to come, and to get rid of it would bring the risk of a serious sense of loss. (p. 28)

Jacques Bonnet

#19. I've always liked the tradition of publishing work serially in the comic-book 'pamphlet' format and then collecting that work in book form, so I've just stuck with it.

Adrian Tomine

#20. To me, nothing tastes more like summer than peach pie. I began collecting pie recipes from friends and family while I was still working on my first draft. As the recipes poured in, it was fun to try to match the pies to the characters in the book.

Sarah Weeks

#21. Having access to the library was all well and good, but as a collector you had to own the book.

John Baxter

#22. How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!

Walter Benjamin

#23. My father, whose hobby was collecting secondhand cricket books, came back from a book fair one day with a copy of 'The Body In The Library.'

Sophie Hannah

#24. To own a certain book - and to choose it without help - is to define yourself.

Julian Barnes

#25. Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.

Augustine Birrell

#26. I was very naive, and I thought it was just a matter of writing my first book and sending it in, and for the rest of my life I would be writing books and collecting royalties. Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published.

Jerry Spinelli

#27. Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.
- Walter Benjamin, Unpacking My Library

Phillip Lopate

#28. I wasn't a comic book geek as a kid. I read some, but it was just like, "Oh, I have this comic book here." It wasn't like I was collecting them.

Chadwick Boseman

#29. To a lover of books the shops and sales in London present irresistible temptations.

Edward Gibbon

#30. There never will be a book, because some one else has written it for him," said Mr. Pepper with considerable acidity. "That's what comes of putting things off, and collecting fossils, and sticking Norman arches on one's pigsties.

Virginia Woolf