Books Quote by Alberto Manguel

“They hauled books from the shelves, flipped through the pages, and tossed them to the floor until an entire library of legal volumes lay…

— Ariel Lawhon

“It may sound dorky, but I love books- the feel of the paper, the old musty smell, & especially the way the words roll…

— Cheryl Renee Herbsman

“Once in every few publishing seasons there is an Event. For no apparent reason, the great heart of the Public gives a startled jump,…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“I head down the steps to see if my mail-order copy of Catcher in the Rye is in the box. I always order the…

— Kathryn Stockett

“The library at home when she was child had been her refuge. She gravitated to it. When she was anxious, just taking a book…

— M.J. Rose

“ Books — the warm, leather-skinned weight of them in your hands, the way they smelled when you lifted them close to your face.…

— Richard K. Morgan

“There was nothing like the smell of books, particularly old books—that magical combination of oaky aged paper, the rich robustness of leather, the silkiness…

— H.Y. Hanna

“I grabbed the closest box of books and heaved it onto my bed. It contained all the books I had read in Iraq. Dog-eared,…

— Michael Anthony

“I've skimmed through it a dozen times, the book glued to my side the past few days, like maybe the information will sink in…

— J.M. Darhower

I love old books. They tell you stories about their use. You can see where the fingerprints touched the pages as they held the…

— Jack Bowman

“Sir, the fact that the book is in a public library brings no comfort.Books are the one element in which I am personally and…

— Harold Laski

“The brown and charred rags that hung from the sides of it, I presently recognized as the decaying vestiges of books. They had long…

— H.G. Wells