But what struck me was the book-madness of the place--books lay scattered across the unmade bed and the top of a battered-looking… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
You rented the apartment with a dead guy in the corner?” I shrugged. “I wanted the apartment, and I figured I could… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
The book must of necessity be put into a bookcase. And the bookcase must be housed. And the house must be kept.… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
The Pulitzer has nothing to do with me; it's more about people's perceptions of me, whatever they may be. I'm not being… — David Lindsay-Abaire Copy Share Image
Let your bookcases and your shelves be your gardens and your pleasure-grounds. Pluck the fruit that grows therein, gather the roses, the… — Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon Copy Share Image
I own a hundred and fifty books, but I have no bookcase. Nobody will lend me a bookcase. — Henny Youngman Copy Share Image
My father always says, ‘Never trust anyone who has a TV bigger than their bookshelf.’ So I make sure I read. Back… — Emilia Clarke Copy Share Image
The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait. — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
What I saw next stopped me dead in my tracks. Books. Not just one or two dozen, but hundreds of them. In… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, as we read, two little girls slept as if couched on zephyrs on the south side of the parlor floor, in… — Mary Cantwell Copy Share Image
Myrna could spend happy hours browsing bookcases. She felt if she could just get a good look at a person’s bookcase and… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
I am a product of endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Amazing how money would simplify problems like ours. We wouldn't go wild at all, but write & travel & study all of… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Dear and most respected bookcase! I welcome your existence, which has for over one hundred years been devoted to the radiant ideals… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The heat made people crazy. They woke from their damp bedsheets and went in search of a glass of water, surprised to… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
I think that my love of cooking grew out of my love of reading about cooking. When I was a kid, we… — Samantha Bee Copy Share Image
My brother and I were able to fantasize far more extravagantly about our parents' tastes and desires, their aspirations and their vices,… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
The prefect evening...lying down on the couch beside the bookcase and reading himself sleepy...Jim lying opposite him at the other end of… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
A knife can be a symbol, but it also better be able to cut string. And if it represent cutting free, cutting… — Ansen Dibell Copy Share Image
A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I found a Bill Evans record in the bookcase and was listening to it while drying my hair when I realized that… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His… — A. E. Hotchner Copy Share Image
Above my cradle loomed the bookcase where/ Latin ashes and the dust of Greece/ mingled with novels, history, and verse/ in one… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Creating things. I love the idea of creation and creativity. Whether it's a character, a short film, a piece of music, a… — Eric Lange Copy Share Image
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