Still on the book topic...

One of my favourite authors is Robertson Davies. He died fairly recently, and since his writing has ceased and it is now possible to have his entire collection of works. I first read his books in my Canadian Literature class, and I now own all of them. One of my favourite quotes (and I have many) is from Tempest-Tost, and while I can't necessarily relate to it word for word, I do understand the point he's making. I particularly love the way he expressed the sentiment.

"Book lovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and unworldly, and perhaps a few of them are so. But there are others who will lie and scheme and steal to get books as wildly and unconscionably as the dope-taker in pursuit of his drug. They may not want the books to read immediately, or at all; they want them to possess, to range on their shelves, to have at command. They want books as a Turk is thought to want concubines -- not to be hastily deflowered, but to be kept at their master's call, and enjoyed more often in thought than in reality."

Robertson Davies
Tempest-Tost