“Browsing through the shelves in bookstores or libraries, I was completely happy.” — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
On the bookshelf of life, God is a useful work of reference, always at hand but seldom consulted. — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
I was walking through the woods, thinking about Christ. If He was a carpenter, I wondered what He charged for bookshelves. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
There's no division on my bookshelf between fiction and nonfiction. As far as I'm concerned, fiction is about the truth. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The thing with bookshelves, no matter how many you have, you always fill them. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“Yes, I love books.” He joined her at the bookshelves. “They are a whole other world.” — Jennifer Malone Wright Copy Share Image
“Books inviting us to read, on the bookshelves stand. Piers for bridges that will lead, into Fairyland.” — Rilke Copy Share Image
His eyes gravitated towards the wall-to-wall bookshelf at one end of the room. 'You folks like books, I see. — Regina Doman 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
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 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
Love After Love all your life, whom you have ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
The Dick, Jane, and Spot primers have gone to that bookshelf in the sky. I have, in some ways, a tender feeling… — Chris Van Allsburg 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
“I have always lusted after a sepia-toned library with floor-to-ceiling bookshelves and a sliding ladder. I fantasie about Tennessee Williams' types of… — Amy Mowafi Copy Share Image
I learned to build bookshelves and brought books to my room, gathering them around me thickly. I read by day and into… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I hope for so much from every book I read. And time and again, I find myself disappointed. I look across my… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
“The room was as big as the Duke of Pardloe's library and had at least as many books, and yet the feeling… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“In my white room, against my white walls, on my glistening white bookshelves, book spines provide the only color. The books are… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
For proponents of ecosystem-based management,the good news is that another new book, Ecosystem-based Management for the Oceans, conveys the topic at its… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
I grew up in the 'hood around prostitutes, drug dealers, killers, and gangbangers, but I also grew up juxtaposed: On the doorknob… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
“A ‘library’ turned out to be a room where books were read. The fact that people used to have so many books… — R. Lee Smith Copy Share Image
The books housed in one's first adult bookshelf are the geological bed of who we wish to become — Sheridan Hay Copy Share Image
“Books are like imprisoned souls until someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.” — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The row of dolls watched her impassively from the bookshelf, their tea party propriety almost certainly offended. — Holly Black Copy Share Image
When I was 7, my proudest possession would have been my bookshelf - 'cause I'd alphabetized all of the books on my bookshelf. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself. — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
Every time I get mad, I grab my hammer and make a bookshelf or something. — Anthony Mackie Copy Share Image
Genre categorization is a capitalist (rather than artistic) thing, a symptom of marketing and major-chain bookshelf placement. — Lee Klein Copy Share Image
If the Bible is what it claims to be, how can we allow it to remain on a bookshelf? — Steven J Lawson Copy Share Image
