Bibliophiles Quote by Will Thomas

I am rather more apt to read old books than new ones.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Most young dealers of the Silicon Chip Era regard a reference library as merely a waste of space. Old Timers on the West Coast…

— Larry McMurtry

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

Every book is a box of ideas.

— Blue Balliett

“...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

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

— Anonymous

“(Mind you, according to Walter Benjamin, the twentieth century’s great philosopher of collecting, browsing and what we’d now call vintage shopping, ‘the non-reading of…

— Simon Reynolds

Books seem so much more interesting in the book store.

— Anonymous

[On libraries] What's great about them is that anybody can go into them and find a book and borrow it free of charge and…

— Stephen Fry

Half of my library are old books because I like seeing how people thought about their world at their time. So that I don't…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

Authors are often sent a number of books to read for possible review and advance praise. It can be easy for new books to…

— Kameron Hurley