Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

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.

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.

I am not man or beast; I am bibliosexual, and a seedy bibliosexual who haunts the streets, laden with carrier bags held by blistered fingers, stooping under the weight of the rucksack that has brought on sciatica and a Dickensian demeanour.

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 spend a frightening amount of money on books.

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

Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper.

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

Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.

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.

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.

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

As a rule people don't collect books; they let books collect themselves.

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

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.

My husband and I are huge bibliophiles. He's always reading 'The New York Times Book Review' and then ordering 20 books online.

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 buy thousands of books a year.

Books are my weakness.

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

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

Here's one of my bad habits: when I go to someone's house, I head straight to their bookshelf.

I get crazy in a bookstore. It makes my heart beat hard because I want to buy everything.

I buy books, I have shelves of books. I love to read.