Addiction Quote by Jeanette Winterson

Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who…

— Jeanette Winterson

Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Book collecting is a full-time occupation, and one wouldn't get far if one took time off for frivolities like reading.”

— A.N.L. Munby

“Collecting anything requires a singularity of focus, but 78 collecting demands an almost-inhuman level of concentration. There is a violence to the search, a…

— Amanda Petrusich

“loathe collectible books anyway. People getting all moony over particular paper carcasses. It’s the ideas that matter, man.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

“Collecting expresses a free-floating desire that attaches and re-attaches itself—it is a succession of desires. The true collector is in the grip not of…

— Susan Sontag

“I am obsessed with books. I am a book collector.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Hobbies come and go, Ive collected art, coins, gems, stamps, antiques, love, friends, enemies and emotions but I never thought of collecting myself! The…

— Lambros Apostolos Kapetanakis

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

— Jacob Weisberg

“You know you're a bookaholic when you take a book off your shelf and have to go hunting to find a spot for it…

— Tynan

I think I've always had an obsession with collecting, as most people do.

— Jonathan Anderson