Answers Quote by Will Thomas

Real bibliophiles do not put their books on shelves for people to look at or handle. They have no desire to show off their…

— Robertson Davies

“...maybe you can curb your bibliophile tendencies for the moment? It's not like we don't have other...priorities....at present." "Nonsense," the bookseller said. "There's always…

— Greg Cox

I'm the farthest thing from a bibliophile. I purge my collection regularly: If I haven't read a book in a couple of years, I…

— H. W. Brands

A modern librarian, who has faith in the law that 'BOOKS ARE FOR USE,' is happy only when his readers make his shelves constantly…

— S. R. Ranganathan

“A serious bibliophile never lends his books. In fact he does not even read his books, for fear of wearing them out.”

— Gérard de Nerval

A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high…

— Anonymous

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

— Carrie Coon

The bibliophile is the master of his books, the bibliomaniac their slave.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“The problem of the librarian is that books are multi-dimensional in their subject matter but must be ordered on one-dimensional shelves.”

— Neal Stephenson

“One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should be "responsive to their patrons." This means…

— Connie Willis

When I was a boy, all the books I owned fit on a single shelf. Now I have several thousand stacked around the house.

— Anthony Doerr

“It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious corpus of volumes whose…

— Anne Fadiman