*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.* [*Jeanette Winterson*](http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9399.Jeanette_Winterson?utm_medium=email&utm_source=quote_of_the_day) Happy birthday, Jeanette Winterson! Before the award-winning English writer became famous for books like Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, she wanted to be a Pentecostal Christian Missionary. She started writing sermons at age six.