Brett Ratner Quotes

I am a big book collector. I love books.

Book collecting is a largely solitary, mostly male, and completely absorbing activity.

I collect books - a lot of books.

I love rare books. Not that I own a lot of them, mind you. You couldn't quite call me a rare-book collector. But I did once work in a rare-books library, and I wrote a novel about a rare book.

I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense.

I collect books, primarily first-edition 20th-century fiction.

I suppose books are my real passion in life.

Book collectors are thrill-seekers. It is a vegetarian hunt to be sure, without much exertion or risk, but the endorphin rush of the chase and the adrenaline high of the capture are much the same with first editions as I imagine they must be in the pursuit of 10-point stags, largemouth bass, or 20-foot waves at Maverick's.

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

I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man.

I definitely was a big comic collector as a kid.

I've always spent money on books. I've always enjoyed handling books - the size, the format. I feel very strongly about original ephemera.

I know not how it is, but during a voyage I collect books as a ship does barnacles.

I wanted to be a librarian from a very young age. Some of my earliest memories are being taken to the local library. I ended up working as a bookseller. Becoming a writer was the logical offshoot of being a reader.

My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.

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.

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.

I read more books for research purposes, whether it's a fictionalized biography of Johannes Gutenberg or a stack of urban fantasies.

I am an avid reader.

I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.

As a kid, books were my great escape and my salvation.

I like Victorian children's novels extremely a lot. If I would say I collect anything, that's what I'll hunt for now and again at old book stores.

I like to browse and just hang in bookstores.

Capra's great passion was Dickens. As soon as he had some money, he bought some of the rarest and most extraordinary editions of Dickens's work, and he was very proud of his collection.

I was an avid Pokemon card collector.