“You go into the office and take a book or two from the shelves. You read a few lines, like your life… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the… — Alan Ayckbourn 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
If you don’t include your women graduates in your breeding pool and leave them on the shelf, you would end up a… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
For this quiet, unprepossessing, passive man who has no garden in front of his subsidised flat, books are like flowers. He loves… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
His books were part of him. Each year of his life, it seemed, his books became more and more a part of… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
I've had many more thousands of books in my possession than my shelves at home would indicate. At one time, I tried… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
Stretched out in front of me was my time as an adult, and then a skeleton, and then nothing except perhaps a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I figured the process of someone standing at a shelf and deciding what juice to buy is going to be very different… — Peter Fader 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
Dali blinked at me. "Would you mind making coffee while you're dancing? I smell it on the bottom shelf, either first or… — Ilona Andrews 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
The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt. — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
I'm a writer who stacks cat food for a living. It's true: I have a master's degree in creative writing, I've published… — Ali Liebegott Copy Share Image
Six-hundred-page biographies of German theologians aren't known to fly off the shelves. — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf. — Ben Whishaw Copy Share Image
You do not know me, but I am a juvenile delinquent. I do not trust authority figures, I probably will not graduate… — Katherine Applegate Copy Share Image
The only thing I have done religiously in my life is keep a journal. I have hundreds of them, filled with feathers,… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
This was an age before e-books. We all knew that the only way you can allow a book to survive in print… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The day Metallica's over, i'm not going to put an ad looking for another band. I'll put my drumsticks on the shelf… — Lars Ulrich Copy Share Image
We are all a volume on a shelf of a library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
The saving of empty beer and liquor bottles is a strange college phenomenon. I bet most of you college students reading this… — Aaron Karo Copy Share Image
Everything from a lifetime's worth of collecting things. You know as we go through life, and something stays and ends up on… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
When you were the son of evil, there was little you couldn't do, own, or kill, and yet her mortal self was… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
if I wait to be perfect before I love myself I will always be unsatisfied and ungrateful if I wait until all… — Joyce Rupp Copy Share Image
