Bibliomania Quotes

To build up a library is to create a life. It's never just a random collection of books.

~ Carlos María Domínguez

In an established love of reading there is a policy of insurance guaranteeing certain happiness till death.

~ A. Edward Newton

A fig for your precious society with its bridge parties, its inane chatter, its cheap mentality; its dances and vulgar banquets; its snobbery and cheap pretension. The humblest library can show you upon a single shelf better society and far more select company than all the drawing-rooms of Europe, America, and South Africa.

~ E. Norman Torry

It doesn't matter if I'm only to be gone four days, as in this case; I take six months' supply of reading material everywhere. Anyone who needs further explication of this eccentricity can find it usefully set out in the first pages of W. Somerset Maugham's story The Book-Bag.

~ Robin Mckinley