John le Carre Quotes

I collect books - a lot of books.

I'm the sort of person who would be perfectly happy spending an entire day in a rare books room.

I have this obsession with really cool, old books.

Any given day, you'll find me at secondhand bookstores.

I love books so much. I've read more books than anyone else I know.

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

One of the most important elements of my identity is my identity as a reader. I love to read - really, if I'm honest with myself, it's practically the only activity that I truly love to do.

Books are my weakness.

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

I am a big book collector. I love books.

I'm not really a book person, to be honest.

The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.

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

I am a bookworm. For play, I bury myself in the corners of libraries and read.

Her home is the burrow of a bibliophile hobbit -- low-ceilinged, close-walled, and brimming over with books.

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.

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

He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.

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.

I cannot live without reading.

From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.

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

Books are still the main yardstick by which I measure true wealth.

Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.