My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
You've only got a short shelf-life as an actor, and I want to make the most of it while I can. — Sharon Horgan Copy Share Image
People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Does a bibliophile ever have enough room on his shelves? The answer is obvious: get more shelves. — Will Thomas Copy Share Image
You got me sitting on the shelf, while you're out bewitching someone else. — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
There will be birthdays in the next twelve months; books keep well; they're easy to wrap: buy those books now. Buy replacements… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Matte or satin sheen scuffs up very easily. So, unless you have it professionally done, definitely paint shelves or cabinets with something… — Emily Henderson Copy Share Image
Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself, Counting this row and that row of moccasins Waiting on the silent shelf. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Seeing one's books on the shelf tells you so much about the way somebody has, over the years, put together their private… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Books lined the shelves of bookstores like kids standing in a row to play baseball or soccer, and mine was the gangly,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Decorators never quite saw the point of massing books. Books brought colour to a room and filled it up, but shelves bearing… — Peter York Copy Share Image
Memories I had locked away have begun to break free, like shards of ice fracturing off an arctic shelf. In sleep, these… — Tan Twan Eng Copy Share Image
Also, if nothing else, writing this book has really changed the way I experience bookstores. I have a whole different appreciation for… — Jesse James Garrett Copy Share Image
When it comes to salt, what was really staggering to me is that the industry itself is totally hooked on salt. It… — Michael Moss Copy Share Image
Even though she saw tattoos everywhere, they continued to fascinate her. How bizarre to be branded like a box of cereal. Didn't… — Suzanne Weyn Copy Share Image
When my father first took me to Ennis Library I went down among the shelves and felt company, not only the company… — Niall Williams Copy Share Image
My advice to whoever asks me how to make a home is to not have anything, just a few shelves for books,… — Gae Aulenti Copy Share Image
The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Round and round the questions flew, until finally I found myself standing at the open door of a bookshop. It’s natural in… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Some people are happy when they are at the sea; I'm happy when I'm standing in front of a shelf of books.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Alexia suspected Lord Maccon's handling was a tad more than was strictly called for under the circumstances, but she secretly enjoyed the… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Domino Effect could stand for anything. It could be just the simple game of the domino rocks falling off one after… — Leo Lionni Copy Share Image
My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don't read for pleasure. When I visit… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
There's a long-standing (50 year old) flame war within the field over whether it's "sci-fi" or "SF".SF has traditionally been looked down… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I think all writers are always collecting characters as we go along. Not just characters of course, we're collecting EVERYTHING. Bits and… — Alexandra Sokoloff Copy Share Image
Bog-lights, vapors of mysticism, psychic overtones, soul orgies, wailings among the shadows, weird gnosticisms, veils and tissues of words, gibbering subjectivisms, gropings… — Jack London Copy Share Image
In our truly remarkable an unexampled civil peace, where there are rarely fist fights; where no one is born, is gravely ill,… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Years later he'd stood in the charred ruins of a library where blackened books lay in pools of water. Shelves tipped over.… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“You see? I know where every single book used to be in the library.' She pointed to the shelf opposite. 'Over there… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Most - and I mean maybe 99% or more - graphic novels are simply fat comicbooks. The term is a bogus, cocked-up… — Jim Steranko Copy Share Image
Life does not seem to present itself to me for my convenience, to box itself up nicely so I can write about… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I'm very wary of doing political stuff for a lot of reasons. One of the big ones is that the shelf-life for… — Tim Heidecker Copy Share Image
Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've sold 11 of my books to Hollywood. There are all kinds of my books on shelves in Hollywood because the scripts… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
There is a logic [to my reading], but I can't define it. I like reading impulsively. I collect books, I have a… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I imagine the earth when I am no more: Women's dresses, dewy lilacs, a song in the valley. Yet the books will… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
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