Literary texts do not exist on bookshelves: they are processes of signification materialized only in the practice of reading. For literature to… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
An extrapolation of its present rate of growth reveals that in the not too distant future Physical Review will fill bookshelves at… — David Mermin Copy Share Image
We have a generation of kids who may never see a bookshelf or never see books in houses. What are they going… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
When I was twelve. And I was going through my parents' bookshelves, I found the most wonderful books and plenty of. Within… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
“I've taken over the guest room wardrobe too- plus, I've arranged all my shoes on the bookshelves on the landing. (I put… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
My desk is an antique with bookshelves built into the side. I've turned the drawer over to hold a keyboard. We live… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
In design-speak, 'a library' means a room lined with books, floor-to ceiling, but it all depends on the space you have. You… — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
“The living room is dark and low-ceilinged, with bookshelves all along the wall opposite the windows. These books have not made George… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
You can read minds, and you didn't tell me?” Link stared at me like he just found out I was the Silver… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
“Unfair," I said as Captain Goode opened a door to reveal a beautiful library. The room seemed to stretch on forever. Bookshelves… — Tarun Shanker Copy Share Image
When we haven't the time to listen to each other's stories we seek out experts to tell us how to live. The… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
I love bookshelves, and stacks of books, spines, typography, and the feel of pages between my fingertips. I love bookmarks, and old… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Writing is not like dancing or modeling; it's not something where-if you missed it by age 19-you're finished. It's never too late.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Built-in shelves line my bedroom, adjacent to my Japanese platform bed, purchased for its capacious rim, the better to hold those books… — Pamela Paul 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
Wouldn't it be wonderful if every home had good books instead of knick-knacks and plastic flowers on the bookshelves? And wouldn't it… — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
Our cities need to change, fast. Tactical Urbanism is a guided tour of solutions created when local people decide they can't wait… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
“As long as you have any floor space at all, you have room for books! Just make two stacks of books the… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
If on a friend’s bookshelf You cannot find Joyce or Sterne Cervantes, Rabelais, or Burton, You are in danger, face the fact,… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
I would stay at my grandma's house on my birthday every year and I remember she had a bookshelf of murder mystery… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
I'm a gastronome first and foremost. I have several bookshelves in my home full of cookbooks, foodie magazines and food writer books… — Karen Walker Copy Share Image
I sometimes look at my bookshelves today and wonder which volumes my sons will treasure in twenty or thirty years. Which should… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Each of us, when our day's work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
I love gay and lesbian parents. But I think we need a law that says lesbians and gay men have to raise… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
[T]hat I could find company and consolation and hope in an object pulled almost at random from a bookshelf--felt akin to an… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“She says I ought to throw out at least two books for every one I buy. I had new bookshelves put up… — Martin Edwards Copy Share Image
I don't really have a domestic inclination. Even my apartment has a semblance of a storage facility. It's just stacks, there are… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
Neel takes a sharp breath and I know exactly what it means. It means: I have waited my whole life to walk… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
The crazy thing is that when we go to somebody's house, what's better than looking at their bookshelves? Nobody's ever going to… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Bookshelves are the most natural places for displaying your personal photos and picture frames. I always print our photos in black and… — Jeremiah Brent Copy Share Image
I remembered standing in the middle of the street in front of The Crooked Bookshelf, filled with the certainty of a future.… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“Jamie felt a strong desire to go across and see what the open books were, to go to the shelves and run… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
You ever buy a book and not read it? You feel almost guilty having it up on a bookshelf. People are like,… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
I don't choose between my house phone and my mobile. I don't choose between my laptop and my notebook. And I don't… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
People have libraries at home, they have bookshelves, they have CDs. And they sort of try, people try to bring great artists… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The bookshelf, like the book, has become an integral part of civilization as we know it, its presence in a home practically… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
Richard's bookshelves weren't alphabetized. He never had time to alphabetize them. He was always too busy- looking for books he couldn't find. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
My ideal beach house has bookshelves full of paperbacks that can tolerate a little sand, a DVD library that includes some Disney… — Mary Kay Andrews Copy Share Image
My study is a converted garage which is largely lined with bookshelves and cardboard boxes filled with manuscripts of my film scripts,… — William Nicholson Copy Share Image
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