Book Collector Quotes

#1. I've been a book collector since I was young, since I was a kid.

Brett Ratner

#2. I am a big book collector. I love books.

Andrew Zuckerman

#3. Becoming a book collector is like joining a religion: it's for life.

Arturo Perez-Reverte

#4. I am obsessed with books.
I am a book collector.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. Though I have never thought of myself as a book collector, there are shelves in our house browsed so often, on so many rainy winter nights, that the contents have seeped into me as if by osmosis.

Hilary Mantel

#6. I'm a huge comic book collector. When I was a kid, I had both Marvel and DC. I was my own librarian. I made card files. I had origin stories of all the characters, and cross-referenced when they appeared in other comic books. I was full on.

James Mangold

#7. To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.

Robertson Davies

#8. I am not a book collector, and I am not fussy about particular editions. As long as the words are there I don't mind.

Adam Foulds

#9. I love rare books. Not that I own a lot of them, mind you. You couldn't quite call me a rare-book collector. But I did once work in a rare-books library, and I wrote a novel about a rare book.

Lev Grossman

#10. Elias Ashmole, a seventeenth-century book collector and alchemist whose books and papers had come to the Bodleian from the Ashmolean Museum in the nineteenth century, along with the number 782.

Deborah Harkness

#11. I'm doing exactly what I was supposed to do. Yeah. I didn't exactly choose this. My own life, if it were up to me, would be very, very quiet. I'd be like a shopkeeper, a book collector, or something like that. I'm not like this. Myself as a performer and an artist is totally different from who I am.

Mos Def

#12. To a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is somewhere on his shelves.

Walter Benjamin

#13. It is possible that the most misunderstood man upon earth is the collector of books ...

Vincent Starrett

#14. I must admit, I was born to officiate; I was made to officiate. I miss it. I knew why I was doing it. God made me to umpire.

Doug Harvey

#15. Hazel screamed at the top of her lungs, but it was a scream of delight. For the first time in her life-in her two lives-she felt absolutely unstoppable.

Rick Riordan

#16. The book borrower ... proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures ... as by his failure to read these books.

Walter Benjamin

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

John Baxter

#18. The Collector [John Fowles book] does such a good job of capturing the mindset of a capturer, and also that's become a banal trope of every second crime novel: the weirdo, fetishistic watcher/stalker/kidnapper/kidnapper of women or children.

Emma Donoghue

#19. Truth was, I didn't really want to die today. I was in the middle of a really good book, and being alive had always worked out for me ...

Jessica Fortunato

#20. We collect books in the belief that we are preserving them when in fact it is the books that preserve their collector.

Walter Benjamin

#21. I'm not a collector. I don't keep letters, or books, or souvenirs. But I do keep one copy of each translation of my books into a foreign language. Have you ever seen a murder story printed in Singhalese? Wow!

Rex Stout

#22. A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakespeare; but for nothing a school-boy can read Hamlet and can detect secrets of highest concernment yet unpublished therein.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#23. How often', he said,'does a man ruin his disciples by remaining always with them.

Romain Rolland

#24. The stalker, meanwhile, stepped into the road. Didn't even check for traffic. There wasn't any, but something told me this was lucky for traffic rather than the stalker.

Graham Parke

#25. I've never been a collector - just a consumer - and these days unless a book is signed to me by another author, I don't normally have any qualms about passing it to a friend or donating it to the library.

Rick Riordan

#26. I am pretty sure the myth of me
Is better than the reality.

Stasia Ward Kehoe

#27. When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring. In short, we find the faith of leap.

Alan Hirsch

#28. It's like I have a sensor in my head, but she works on a seven-second delay ... well-meaning, but perpetually about seven seconds too late to actually do anything to stop the horrific avalanche of shit-you-shouldn't- say-out-loud-but-I-just-did.

Jenny Lawson

#29. I think when you're younger, you need to socialize and be with people your own age.

Bonnie Wright

#30. I was a serious comic collector and fanboy as a kid. I wanted very badly to draw comic books for a lot of my childhood and early adolescence. So when you have an unfulfilled dream like that, when years later you find yourself in a position to make a graphic novel - hell yeah, I'm going to do that.

Anthony Bourdain

#31. Truth is, I think naked men are kind of strange looking what with their doodles and ding-dong hanging loose like they do. Nevertheless, there's the curiosity thing. I guess it's another one of those car crash experiences, where you feel compelled to look even if you know you'll be horrified.

Janet Evanovich