Absurdity 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, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it…

— 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

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

— Jacob Weisberg

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

— Jonathan Anderson

If you're smart enough you realise that your possessions possess you in their turn. Collecting has a neurotic aspect. I find it boring when…

— Thomas Koerfer

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

“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

Collecting is my passion.

— Ursula Andress

Collecting is the sort of thing that creeps up on you.

— Paul Mellon

If you're going to collect things because you think they have value, then don't collect. For me, you have to be obsessed, and there…

— Jonathan Anderson

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

— Arnold Bennett