Quotes About Collecting Books

#1. I needed more knowledge in rigging and knotting. I started collecting books on knots and really learning more and more. That's how it started. And also in magic, of course. With a piece of rope, you can do magic.

Philippe Petit

#2. When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness.

Vincent Starrett

#3. Jefferson, who spent his life collecting books, many of which he donated to the Library of Congress, boasted that America was the only country whose farmers read Homer. "A native of America who cannot read or write," said John Adams, "is as rare an appearance ... as a Comet or an Earthquake.

Azar Nafisi

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

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

Walter Benjamin

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

John Baxter

#9. Every new search is a voyage to the Indies, a quest for buried treasure, a journey to the end of the rainbow; and whether or not at the end there shall be turned up a pot of gold or merely a delightful volume, there are always wonders along the way.

Vincent Starrett

#10. Acting had always been the social scene I'd fallen into. It was sort of a merry band of band geeks and theater nerds.

Adam Baldwin

#11. 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

#12. For Arthur, words gathered in waterfall thoughts that spilled off the page into the pools of imaginaton collecting in his head.

Christopher Scotton

#13. I say if you love something, set it in a small cage and pester and smother it with love until it either loves you back or dies.

Mindy Kaling

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

Carlos Maria Dominguez

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

Gianni Versace

#16. The death of kings can be recited, but not of one's child.

James Salter

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

Leona Rostenberg

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. I was able to overcome this because of the fans who waited for me. I promise not to disappoint you anymore.

Jay Park

#21. 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

#22. 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

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

Edward Gibbon

#24. I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.

Ville Valo

#25. -Books were once cherished belongings of people, that they weren't always just neglected and collecting dust.

Barbara Hodgson

#26. He continued with a laugh, "And for highly motivated people, there are few more frustrating situations than realizing that the goals you've set will require a shift in the basic laws of time and space.

Eric C. Sinoway

#27. Confirmation bias is probably the single biggest problem in business, because even the most sophisticated people get it wrong. People go out and they're collecting the data, and they don't realize they're cooking the books.

Chip Heath

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

Phillip Lopate

#29. I think feeling responsible for stuff that goes wrong is an inherent part of being female.

Julie Klausner

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

Julian Barnes

#31. I love buying and collecting good books: I am passionate reader. This is my sacred life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#32. Having an energy conversation without talking about climate is like talking about smoking and not talking about cancer.

Chris Hayes

#33. The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#34. I guess I never grew up. I was still reading kids' books in high school and college. I was always interested in writing or illustrating children's books, and I started collecting out-of-print books when I was about 10 years old.

Michael Patrick Hearn

#35. The whole point of collecting is the thrill of acquisition, which must be maximized, and maintained at all costs.

John Baxter

#36. Into this life of cruel wonder sent,
Without a word to tell us what it meant,
Sent back again without a reason why -
Birth, life, and death - 'twas all astonishment.

Richard Le Gallienne

#37. The commonplace books of the old Puritans were invaluable to them. They would never have been able to compile such works as they did if they had not been careful in collecting and arranging their matter under different heads.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon