--- title: "12 Books Home Quotes by 12 authors" description: "Browse 12 Books Home quotes by 12 authors. Discover the best Books Home sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/086/vikrant-parsai-70_books_i-am-a-writer-books-are-my-home-and-word_2133188.jpg" --- > [I am a writer. Books are my home and words are my friends.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vikrant-parsai/i-am-a-writer-books-are-my-home-and-words-are-my-friends/) [Vikrant Parsai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vikrant-parsai/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/086/vikrant-parsai-70_books_i-am-a-writer-books-are-my-home-and-word_2133188.jpg) > [And one of the reasons that I wrote the cook books was so that I could be at home more than being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/trisha-yearwood/and-one-of-the-reasons-that-i-wrote-the-cook-books-was-so-that-i/) [Trisha Yearwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/trisha-yearwood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f1/trisha-yearwood-16843_being_and-one-of-the-reasons-that-i-wrote-the_2843855.jpg) > [Books, for me, are a home. Books don’t make a home – they are one, in the sense that just as you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeanette-winterson/books-for-me-are-a-home-books-don-t-make-a-home-they-are-one-in-the/) [Jeanette Winterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeanette-winterson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7b3/jeanette-winterson-166_book_books-for-me-are-a-home-books-don-t-make_513192.png) > [There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-lewis-perl/there-were-two-free-public-libraries-within-walking-distance-of-my/) [Martin Lewis Perl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-lewis-perl/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/010/martin-lewis-perl-26976_books_there-were-two-free-public-libraries-wit_568813.png) > [“It was my sister's fault. She brought...books home before I was old enough to check them out of the library myself.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-patrick-hearn/it-was-my-sister-s-fault-she-brought-books-home-before-i-was-old/) [Michael Patrick Hearn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-patrick-hearn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/714/michael-patrick-hearn-262864_books_it-was-my-sister-s-fault-she-brought-boo_1853948.jpg) > [In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-morgan/in-the-later-books-i-am-much-more-at-home-in-the-use-of-language-to/) [Robert Morgan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-morgan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c97/robert-morgan-9709_book_in-the-later-books-i-am-much-more-at-hom_3093019.jpg) > [I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jos-saramago/i-had-no-books-at-home-i-started-to-frequent-a-public-library-in/) [Jose Saramago](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jos-saramago/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dce/jos-saramago-208_books_i-had-no-books-at-home-i-started-to-freq_769880.png) > [Nobody had books at home. My dad was a very educated person, so he would have books at home. All Spanish books.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/luis-j-rodr-guez/nobody-had-books-at-home-my-dad-was-a-very-educated-person-so-he/) [Luis J. Rodriguez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/luis-j-rodr-guez/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e3f/luis-j-rodr-guez-15197_book_nobody-had-books-at-home-my-dad-was-a-ve_1393531.jpg) > [Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorge-luis-borges/sometimes-looking-at-the-many-books-i-have-at-home-i-feel-i-shall-die/) [Jorge Luis Borges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jorge-luis-borges/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6f2/jorge-luis-borges-275_book_sometimes-looking-at-the-many-books-i-ha_1118828.jpg) > [Books have always been my home. I ransacked the library regularly from the time we moved to the States. I read on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mitali-perkins/books-have-always-been-my-home-i-ransacked-the-library-regularly-from/) [Mitali Perkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mitali-perkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f15/mitali-perkins-34911_book_books-have-always-been-my-home-i-ransack_152022.jpg) > [We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-kemp/we-never-had-books-at-home-but-my-dad-seeing-how-keen-i-was-to-read/) [Gary Kemp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-kemp/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa6/gary-kemp-15911_about_we-never-had-books-at-home-but-my-dad-se_743342.png) > [We didn't have any books at home. Not even children's books or fairy tales. The only 'fantastic' stories came from religion class.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herta-m-ller/we-didn-t-have-any-books-at-home-not-even-children-s-books-or-fairy/) [Herta Muller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herta-m-ller/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/360/herta-m-ller-4269_books_we-didn-t-have-any-books-at-home-not-eve_3048142.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books-home/#itemlist", "name": "Books Home Quotes", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I am a writer. 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I ransacked the library regularly from the time we moved to the States. I read on the fire escape. I read at the dinner table. I read late into the night in my room. 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