Book Hoarder Quotes

I have about 3,500 books, maybe more.

I was that kid with the glasses and the hungry expression who haunted every library book sale and used bookstore in town: the one who always has a book in one hand and is reaching for the next book with the other. There's one in every town.

Mr. Pewter led them through to a library, filled with thousands of antiquarian books. 'Impressive, eh?' 'Very,' said Jack. 'How did you amass all these?' 'Well,' said Pewter, 'You know the person who always borrows books and never gives them back?' 'Yes...?' 'I'm that person.

People sometimes think that I bring home all these old books because I'm addicted, that I'm no better than a hoarder with a houseful of crumbling newspapers.

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.

In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.

I am a product [...of] endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them.... I had always the same certainty of finding a book that was new to me as a man who walks into a field has of finding a new blade of grass.

My wife calls me the Imelda Marcos of books. As soon as a book enters our home it is guaranteed a permanent place in our lives. Because I have never been able to part with even one, they have gradually accumulated like sediment.

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

I personally own six or seven thousand books, so I - and I certainly don't want to see them go away.

A glimpse at my night stand gives the mostly true impression that I am a book hoarder.

She is a real bookworm. I think she lives on print. Her whole house is full of books - looks as if she likes them better than human company.

I collect books, and I love libraries. I love bookstores. And to me meeting a writer is important. And when I saw a book with my name on it I almost passed out.

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

I'm usually reading too many books - in fact, I'm usually reading enough books that if the stack fell on me, I'd be injured.

I guess there are never enough books.

I can't take just one book with me anywhere.

To a bibliophile, there is but one thing better than a box of new books, and that is a box of old ones.

I have two quite large houses, and every cupboard and drawer is stuffed with books.

Do you know what they call people who hoard books? Smart.