To build up a library is to create a life. It's never just…

“To librarians, booksellers, and collectors there is nothing limited in the subject of books about books.”

— Leona Rostenberg

You build a thousand castles, a thousand sanctuaries, you are nothing; you build a library, you are everything!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Ask anyone with a big book collection, and they'll tell you moving them was the hardest part of the move. Take down a bookshelf…

— Lauren Leto

How do you explain to somebody who doesn't understand that you don't build a library to read. A library is a resource. Something you…

— Howard Jacobson

“However hard as I try, it keeps growing. My bibliomania is pretty acute.”

— Martin Edwards

“Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit, and I…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“It's bibliomania here!”

— Love The Stacks Bookstore

“The novelist Umberto Eco famously kept what the writer Nassim Taleb called an “anti-library,” a vast collection of books he had not read, believing…

— Pamela Paul

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university…

— Albert Camus

A collection of books is the best of all universities.

— Thomas Carlyle

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

— Thomas Carlyle

My worldview comes from a collection of the books I have read, the people I have met, and my conversations with my dad.

— Brian Kilmeade

“The greatest university is a collection of books.”

— Thomas Carlyle

“The greatest university of all is a collection of books.”

— Thomas Carlyle

“Isabel is looking at several collections of research journals. 'She would understand the issues if she chose to open one of the volumes, but…

— Alexander McCall Smith