Book Quote by Vincent Starrett Download Open image “When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness.” — Vincent Starrett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Collecting Happiness Writing
We collect books in the belief that we are preserving them when in fact it is the books that preserve their collector. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Happiness is not about collecting material things or beautiful memories. It's about having a deep feeling of contentment and knowing that life is a… — Jeigh Ilano Copy Share Image
“You can't buy happiness but you can buy books and that's kind of the same thing” — Tumbler Copy Share Image
As a rule people don't collect books; they let books collect themselves. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
If you want to be happy, then it is within your grasp. The book you are holding can have a profound impact on your… — Willie Jolley Copy Share Image
Of all the things that make for happiness, the love of books comes first. No matter how the world may have used us, sure… — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Here dwell together still two men of note Who never lived and so can never die: How very near they seem, yet how remote… — Vincent Starrett Copy Share Image
“It is possible that the most misunderstood man upon earth is the collector of books…” — Vincent Starrett Copy Share Image
“Man wants what he cannot have, or what is difficult to procure, or what he must wade through the blood of other men to… — Vincent Starrett Copy Share Image
The day before yesterday has always been a day of glamor, of gilt and glory. The present is sordid and prosaic. Time colors history… — Vincent Starrett Copy Share Image
But there can be no grave for Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson...Shall they not always live in Baker Street? Are they not there this… — Vincent Starrett Copy Share Image
Every new search is a voyage to the Indies, a quest for buried treasure, a journey to the end of the rainbow; and whether… — Vincent Starrett Copy Share Image
“For one thing, a first edition certainly is the edition nearest the heart of an author, the edition upon which his hopes were laid… — Vincent Starrett Copy Share Image
The day before yesterday always has been a glamour day. The present is sordid and prosaic. Time colors history as it does a meerschaum… — Vincent Starrett Copy Share Image
A yellow fog swirls past the window-pane As night descends upon the fabled street: A lonely hansom splashes through the rain, And ghostly gas… — Vincent Starrett Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
