Robin Ince Quotes

A bibliomaniac is one to whom books are like bottles of whiskey to the inebriate, to whom anything that is between covers has an intoxicating savor.

I have always been reconciled to the fact that I was born a bibliomaniac, never have I sought a cure, and my dearest friends have been drawn from those likewise suffering from book madness.

Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying new books. Whenever I walk into a bookstore and find a book on one of my hobbies — for example, Old English or Old Norse poetry — I say to myself, “What a pity I can’t buy that book, for I already have a copy at home.

Books are my weakness.

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

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.

Books are becoming everything to me. If I had at this moment any choice in life, I would bury myself in one of those immense libraries...and never pass a waking hour without a book before me.

I'm afraid I've degenerated into a bibliophile.

...If I don't have twenty or thirty books right here, waiting to be read, I start jonesing. That's my compulsion.

I hoard books. They are people who do not leave.

I can never leave a bookstore without buying a book. I read four or five at a time.

I'm obsessed with Nicholas Sparks. I've literally read every single book, because every time I travel, at the airport, I always buy a new Nicholas Sparks book.

I love physical books, can't bear to throw them away, and am drowning under the weight of my collection, but I do a lot of my work reading now on my iPad.

I buy thousands of books a year.

I spend a frightening amount of money on books.

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

I'm an inveterate bookstore wanderer. I read constantly, so I love a good bookstore. I can't help it.

I love books. Probably too much for my own good.

I used to steal from the library, which is a crime and it's bad, but I just couldn't get enough books, and I also didn't like to give them back once I'd read them. I just read everything.

I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored.

I am simply a book drunkard.

I would rather be dead than not read

There are 10,000 books in my library, and it will keep growing until I die. This has exasperated my daughters, amused my friends and baffled my accountant. If I had not picked up this habit in the library long ago, I would have more money in the bank today; I would not be richer.

As a child, I felt that books were holy objects, to be caressed, rapturously sniffed, and devotedly provided for. I gave my life to them. I still do. I continue to do what I did as a child; dream of books, make books and collect books.

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