Colleen

“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind.”
― Jeanette Winterson

“A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.”
― Amanda Cross

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey