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To librarians, booksellers, and collectors there is nothing limited in the subject of books about books. ~ Leona Rostenberg
Collecting Books quotes by Leona Rostenberg
Having access to the library was all well and good, but as a collector you had to own the book. ~ John Baxter
Collecting Books quotes by John Baxter
Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.
- Walter Benjamin, Unpacking My Library ~ Phillip Lopate
Collecting Books quotes by Phillip Lopate
And once more given to inaction,
Empty in spirit and alone,
He settled down – to the distraction
Of making other minds his own;
Collecting books, he stacked a shelfful,
Read, read, not even one was helpful:
Here, there was dullness, there pretence;
This one lacked conscience, that one sense;
All were by different shackles fettered;
And, past times having lost their hold,
The new still raved about the old.
Like women, books he now deserted,
And mourning taffeta he drew
Across the bookshelf's dusty crew. ~ Alexander Pushkin
Collecting Books quotes by Alexander Pushkin
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
Collecting Books quotes by Peter Ruber
The mania for collecting can easily turn simply into accumulating. All one has to do is develop one collecting interest after another, and so on. But collectors of a particular category of articles almost always lose interest once they have reached their goal. When the collection is complete, what else is there to do? ... Failure makes it possible to avoid the effort: he simply carries on as before. (pp. 25-26) ~ Jacques Bonnet
Collecting Books quotes by Jacques Bonnet
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
Collecting Books quotes by Vincent Starrett
Buy books, then, that you have read with profit and pleasure and hope to read and reread. Buy books that you may underscore passages and write upon the margins, thus assuring yourself that the book is your own. Keep the books that mean the most to you close at hand, one or two, if possible, on a table at your bedside. Do not hide away your favorite books or keep them locked in enclosed shelves. Do not keep them under glass. ~ Burton Rascoe
Collecting Books quotes by Burton Rascoe
Do you like books, Lady Murray?' Lavinia asked.
'Just to read,' Violet said.
'A mistake. A very big mistake. A poorly bound book disintegrates. Where would our learning be then? We need something permanent, solid. We need to treat words with the respect they are due. Treasure them. Adorn the books that contain these words with leather bindings, illuminate their words with gold. We shouldn't treat learning lightly.'
'But I would treat a word scrawled on a scrap of paper with the same respect as one written on an illuminated manuscript. ~ Alice Thompson
Collecting Books quotes by Alice Thompson
I am often asked a stock question: 'Have you actually read all those books?' To this I have my answer ready: 'Is there anybody who has read all the books in his library?' That would be like claiming to enjoy the incredible luxury and good fortune of being able to accomplish everything in this life that one would wish. ~ Konstantinos Staikos
Collecting Books quotes by Konstantinos Staikos
How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books! ~ Walter Benjamin
Collecting Books quotes by Walter Benjamin
The elevator doors opened, and I squeezed myself out before pulling out the Wardrober. It was heavy. "What do you have in there?" I said. "Your whole house?"

"Almost," Simone laughed. "My favorite books. ~ Kailin Gow
Collecting Books quotes by Kailin Gow
I keep collecting books I know
I'll never, never read;
My wife and daughter tell me so,
And yet I never heed.
"Please make me," says some wistful tome,
"A wee bit of yourself."
And so I take my treasure home,
And tuck it in a shelf.

And now my very shelves complain;
They jam and over-spill.
They say: "Why don't you ease our strain?"
"Some day," I say, "I will."
So book by book they plead and sigh;
I pick and dip and scan;
Then put them back, distressed that I
Am such a busy man.

Now, there's my Boswell and my Sterne,
my Gibbon and Defoe;
To savor Swift I'll never learn,
Montaigne I may not know.
On Bacon I will never sup,
For Shakespeare I've no time;
Because I'm busy making up
These jingly bits of rhyme.

Chekov is caviar to me,
While Stendhal makes me snore;
Poor Proust is not my cup of tea,
And Balzac is a bore.
I have their books, I love their names,
And yet alas! they head,
With Lawrence, Joyce and Henry James,
My Roster of Unread.

I think it would be very well
If I commit a crime,
And get put in a prison cell
And not allowed to rhyme;
Yet given all these worthy books
According to my need,
I now caress with loving looks,
But never, never read."

(from, Book Lover) ~ Robert W. Service
Collecting Books quotes by Robert W. Service
Reading," I said. "Books. It's pretty sexy. I like women who read." - Rip ~ Kailin Gow
Collecting Books quotes by Kailin Gow
The only thing that I discovered very early on is that, even though we might change schools and cities and towns and states, the books in the library were the same. They had the same covers. They had the same characters. I could go and visit those people in the library as if I knew them. ~ J. Michael Straczynski
Collecting Books quotes by J. Michael Straczynski
My life transformed by making myself a reader. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Collecting Books quotes by Lailah Gifty Akita
It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Collecting Books quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle
I am self-educated from genre books. ~ Charlaine Harris
Collecting Books quotes by Charlaine Harris
All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are. ~ Alice Hoffman
Collecting Books quotes by Alice Hoffman
I deal with the authors I work with, agents, and other departments of the company, talking about both the books that I'm working on and everyone else's. Then there's dealing with foreign publishers: foreigners visit all the time. People want to bounce things off the publisher, and a lot of it is encouragement. ~ Jonathan Galassi
Collecting Books quotes by Jonathan Galassi
I wasn't the kind of girl who fell for musicians, but it wasn't fair that Dev had a beautiful singing voice that did things to the surface of my skin. I opened my eyes, and there was Lexie again, in the wings, staring at Dev like he was an advanced reader copy of the last book in a series. ~ Isabel Bandeira
Collecting Books quotes by Isabel Bandeira
Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were. ~ Hallie Ephron
Collecting Books quotes by Hallie Ephron
The number of books students read ... is among the best indicators of student reading development. ~ Mike Schmoker
Collecting Books quotes by Mike Schmoker
My books have always been safe spaces, sanctuaries for Queer folk, first and foremost, but all are welcome. ~ Andrew Demcak
Collecting Books quotes by Andrew Demcak
Trees are what paper was, and wants to be. ~ Jo Walton
Collecting Books quotes by Jo Walton
He was like a book, where each chapter picks up pace until you can't put it down. That's when you know you've made a friend - when you want to read more of his story. ~ Katie Kacvinsky
Collecting Books quotes by Katie Kacvinsky
I buy way too many books. ~ Orson Scott Card
Collecting Books quotes by Orson Scott Card
He felt overwelmed when he thought of all the books he hadn't read, all the books he wanted to read, and all the books he would want to read. Not to mention all the books that he hadn't heard of.
Those dismayed him the most. ~ Kristine Grayson
Collecting Books quotes by Kristine Grayson
I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading. ~ Tony Hillerman
Collecting Books quotes by Tony Hillerman
Something he must read, when he was not riding the pony, or running and hunting, or listening to the talk of men ... it had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid ... knowledge seemed to him a very superficial affair, easily mastered: judging from the conversations of his elders he had apparently got already more than was necessary for mature life. ~ George Eliot
Collecting Books quotes by George Eliot
They've got lots of theories, books, sciences - I've read a lot of those books. Most of them are pretty unhappy. ~ Frederick Lenz
Collecting Books quotes by Frederick Lenz
We are punctual, a stressed, marked characteristic. We need order around us, in the house, in the life, although we live by irresistible impulses, as if the order in the closets, in our papers, in our books, in our photographs, in our souvenirs, in our clothes could preserve us from chaos in our feelings, loves, in our work. Indifference to food, sobriety; but this, we admit, is the part of the war against a threatening fragility. ~ Anais Nin
Collecting Books quotes by Anais Nin
Read the most useful books, and that regularly and constantly. ~ John Wesley
Collecting Books quotes by John Wesley
I hadn't realized quite how intense the first few years of grad school would be. When you're being assigned 40 books a week ... there's not much room for novels. ~ Lauren Willig
Collecting Books quotes by Lauren Willig
I've raised three kids. I'm a lawyer. I've written books on the Constitution. ~ Caroline Kennedy
Collecting Books quotes by Caroline Kennedy
Remember, it's the winners write the history books, and the losers get the leavings. ~ Joanne Harris
Collecting Books quotes by Joanne Harris
Reading two pages apiece of seven books every night, eh? I was young. You bowed to yourself in the mirror, stepping forward to applause earnestly, striking face. Hurray for the Goddamned idiot! Hray! No-one saw: tell no-one. Books you were going to write with letters for titles. Have you read his F? O yes, but I prefer Q. Yes, but W is wonderful. O yes, W. Remember your epiphanies written on green oval leaves, deeply deep, copies to be sent if you died to all the great libraries of the world, including Alexandria? Someone was to read them there after a few thousand years, a mahamanvantara. Pico della Mirandola like. Ay, very like a whale. When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once ...

The grainy sand had gone from under his feet. His boots trod again a damp crackling mast, razorshells, squeaking pebbles, that on the unnumbered pebbles beats, wood sieved by the shipworm, lost Armada. Unwholesome sandflats waited to suck his treading soles, breathing upward sewage breath, a pocket of seaweed smouldered in seafire under a midden of man's ashes. He coasted them, walking warily. A porterbottle stood up, stogged to its waist, in the cakey sand dough. A sentinel: isle of dreadful thirst. Broken hoops on the shore; at the land a maze of dark cunning nets; farther away chalkscrawled backdoors and on the higher beach a dryingline with two crucified shirts. Ringsend: wigwams of brown steersmen and master mariners. Human ~ James Joyce
Collecting Books quotes by James Joyce
There were many deficits in our swamp education, but Grandpa Sawtooth, to his credit, taught us the names of whole townships that had been forgotten underwater. Black pioneers, Creek Indians, moonshiners, women, 'disappeared' boy soldiers who deserted their army camps. From Grandpa we learned how to peer beneath the sea-glare of the 'official, historical' Florida records we found in books. "Prejudice," as defined by Sawtooth Bigtree, was a kind of prehistoric arithmetic
a "damn, fool math"
in which some people counted and others did not. It meant white names on white headstones in the big cemetery in Cypress Point, and black and brown bodies buried in swamp water.
At ten, I couldn't articulate much but I got the message: to be a true historian, you had to mourn amply and well. ~ Karen Russell
Collecting Books quotes by Karen Russell
It's a wisdom that comes from seeing how things work. Things you want to happen always take a long time.' She pointed one little finger at the meech dragon and shook it in his face. 'You may read books and know bunches, but I have lived life longer than you. ~ Donita K. Paul
Collecting Books quotes by Donita K. Paul
My work is less violent because we tend to write what we want to read ... and I'm not that interested in gruesome books. Any violence, to fit in well with a crime novel, has to have compassion. ~ Ann Cleeves
Collecting Books quotes by Ann Cleeves
To sum up: it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

If a man, holding a belief which he was taught in childhood or persuaded of afterwards, keeps down and pushes away any doubts which arise about it in his mind, purposely avoids the reading of books and the company of men that call into question or discuss it, and regards as impious those questions which cannot easily be asked without disturbing it - the life of that man is one long sin against mankind. […]

Inquiry into the evidence of a doctrine is not to be made once for all, and then taken as finally settled. It is never lawful to stifle a doubt; for either it can be honestly answered by means of the inquiry already made, or else it proves that the inquiry was not complete.

"But," says one, "I am a busy man; I have no time for the long course of study which would be necessary to make me in any degree a competent judge of certain questions, or even able to understand the nature of the arguments."

Then he should have no time to believe. ~ William Kingdon Clifford
Collecting Books quotes by William Kingdon Clifford
There are a lot of good books around. People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it's someone else's vision, isn't it? ~ Lemmy Kilmister
Collecting Books quotes by Lemmy Kilmister
If the book's bad enough, they'll publish it, and if it's bad bad enough, the daily reviewers will love it, and it'll sell. ~ James Purdy
Collecting Books quotes by James Purdy
In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience. ~ Dean Koontz
Collecting Books quotes by Dean Koontz
I learned little save that most of the deeds, good and bad both, incurring opprobrium or plaudits or reward either, within the scope of man's abilities, had already been performed and were to be learned about only from books. ~ William Faulkner
Collecting Books quotes by William Faulkner
For the record, pot, like the Reader's Digest , is not necessarily habit-forming, but both can lead to hard-core addiction : heroin, in one case, abridged bad books, in the other. Either way you look at it, a withdrawal from a meaningful life. ~ Mordecai Richler
Collecting Books quotes by Mordecai Richler
This website is really good for listing books. ~ Brodie Cameron
Collecting Books quotes by Brodie Cameron
No matter how good it is, your book will not sell itself. ~ Elinor Florence
Collecting Books quotes by Elinor Florence
The idea of the book that matters most," Kiki said. "Because i think it's like impossible to pick such a book. When you read a book, and who you are when you read it, makes it matter or not. Like if you're unhappy and you read, I don't know, On the Road or The Three Musketeers, and that book changes how you fell or how you think, then it matters the most. At that time. ~ Ann Hood
Collecting Books quotes by Ann Hood
When the sun shall be folded up; and when the stars shall fall; and when the mountains shall be made to pass away; and when the camels ten months gone with young shall be neglected; and when the seas shall boil; and when the souls shall be joined again to their bodies; and when the girl who hath been buried alive shall be asked for what crime she was put to death; and when the books shall be laid open; and when the heavens shall be removed; and when hell shall burn fiercely; and when paradise shall be brought near: every soul shall know what it hath wrought. ~ Anonymous
Collecting Books quotes by Anonymous
I believe that everyone collects. I think collecting is in our blood as humans. ~ Lynda Resnick
Collecting Books quotes by Lynda Resnick
WILL'S RULES FOR LIVING #13: READ BOOKS TO GET SMARTER. READ PEOPLE TO BECOME WISER. ~ Mark Frost
Collecting Books quotes by Mark Frost
There is no man who has not some interesting associations with particular scenes, or airs, or books, and who does not feel their beauty or sublimity enhanced to him by such connections. ~ Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet
Collecting Books quotes by Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet
Books have tremendous worth, and we must not do anything to make them seem less valuable. ~ Steven Rigolosi
Collecting Books quotes by Steven Rigolosi
A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man. ~ Alfred Nobel
Collecting Books quotes by Alfred Nobel
I pull the blanket around my shoulders, and the customer looking at the classics section gives me a sympathetic look. I give him one back because, as much as I love books, if you are in the classic's section first thing in the morning, then there's something not entirely right with your life either. ~ Cath Crowley
Collecting Books quotes by Cath Crowley
About some books we feel that our reluctance to return to them is the true measure of our admiration. It is hard to suppose that many people go back, from a spontaneous desire, to reread 1984: there is neither reason nor need to, no one forgets it. The usual distinctions between forgotten details and a vivid general impression mean nothing here, for the book is written out of one passionate breath, each word is bent to a severe discipline of meaning, everything is stripped to the bareness of terror.
Kafka's The Trial is also a book of terror, but it is a paradigm and to some extent a puzzle, so that one may lose oneself in the rhythm of the paradigm and play with the parts of the puzzle. Kafka's novel persuades us that life is inescapably hazardous and problematic, but the very 'universality' of this idea helps soften its impact: to apprehend the terrible on the plane of metaphysics is to lend it an almost soothing aura. ~ Irving Howe
Collecting Books quotes by Irving Howe
Alexandria was "the single place on earth where all the knowledge in the entire world was gathered together -- every great play and poem, every book of physics and philosophy, the key to understanding ... simply everything," as the historians Justin Pollard and Howard Reid wrote. "Most of the knowledge of the first thousand years of Western civilization is missing. These were the books that formed the library of Alexandria. ~ Adam Rogers
Collecting Books quotes by Adam Rogers
And I remember this man who never ran out of poems telling me once that "knowing a book by heart is like carrying a house inside your chest. ~ Hisham Matar
Collecting Books quotes by Hisham Matar
What kind of books do you like?'
'I like books about nice people. And a story where it all comes out right in the end.'
'But Nancibel, that's not true to life.'
'I daresay not. Why should it be?'
'You're an escapist.'
'Pardon?'
'You don't want the face facts.'
'Not in story books, I don't. I face plenty between Monday and Saturday without reading about them.'
Bruce sighed.
'I don't think a book ought to be sad,' said Nancibel, 'unless it's a great classical book, like 'Wuthering Heights.'
'Oh! You've read 'Wuthering Heights'. Did you like it?'
'Yes, but I didn't think it was the right part for Merle Oberon. Running about with bare feet, well she was hobbling most of the time. You could see she wasn't used to it.'
'Oh... you mean the film. ~ Margaret Kennedy
Collecting Books quotes by Margaret Kennedy
This is the female form, vapor,
A divine nimbus exhales from it from head to foot,
It attracts with fierce undeniable attraction,
I am drawn by its breath as if I were no more than a helpless vapor, all falls aside but myself and it,
Books, art, religion, time, the visible and solid earth, and what was expected of heavaen or fear'd of hell, are now consumed, Mad filament, ungovernable shoots play out of it, the response likewise ungovernable ... ~ Walt Whitman
Collecting Books quotes by Walt Whitman
I could, of course, have done no more if no less than affiliated myself in one way or another with a particular church, could have simply read books about Christianity, talked to Christian people, set out to discover something about what a Christian life is supposed to involve and then tried as best I could to live one. But, on the one hand, that didn't seem enough to me, and on the other, it seemed to much. ~ Frederick Buechner
Collecting Books quotes by Frederick Buechner
He looks at me, and I don't know what he sees. I used to think it was Rose. But she's not here with us now, in this room. It's just him and me, and the books. I feel like our lives are in those books. I feel like all the words on the pages are for us. ~ Lauren DeStefano
Collecting Books quotes by Lauren DeStefano
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