Books for kids Quote by Anna Quindlen Download Open image “Decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.” — Anna Quindlen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books for kids Bookshelves Building Children Decorating Enough Importance of reading Independent bookstores My children Reading books Reading for kids Reading habits
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building… — Anna Quindlen 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 just one… — Peter York Copy Share Image
The point of decorating, as far as I can tell, is to create the background for the best life you can have. — Deborah Needleman Copy Share Image
Decorating is like music. Harmony is what we constantly strive for. At home, we want a peaceful atmosphere where the objects are the notes… — Charlotte Moss Copy Share Image
“Books and bookcases cropping up in stuff that I've written means that they have to be reproduced on stage or on film. This isn't… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
My favorite thing about decorating is mixing different periods and styles. If you have something that's old, and you really do want to mix… — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
... it has always seemed to me that books are the supreme decorations of a room — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
Decorating is not about making stage sets, it's not about making pretty pictures for the magazines, it's really about creating a quality of life,… — Albert Hadley Copy Share Image
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I love to decorate a room - from the furniture to the objects to the books. — Aerin Lauder Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Trying to be perfect may be inevitable for people who are smart and ambitious and interested in the world and its good opinion...What is… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Sometimes change came all at once, with a sound like a fire taking hold of dry wood and paper, with a roar that rose… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
knowledge of our own mortality is the greatest gift God ever gives us. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
You teach your 16-year-old with your heart in your mouth to be a good driver and none of that makes any difference when some… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Every reader, I suspect, has a book like this somewhere in his or her past, a book that seemed to hold within it, at… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“I’ve finally recognized my body for what it is: a personality-delivery system, designed expressly to carry my character from place to place, now and… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“In England I am always madam; I arrived too late to ever be a miss. In New York I have only been madamed once,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Yet there was always in me, even when I was very small, the sense that I ought to be somewhere else. And wander I… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I wanted to write honest books for kids because I didn't have those when I was a kid. — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
It's great that there are so many different kinds of books for kids and adults to choose from. I think an eclectic reader is… — Ann M. Martin Copy Share Image
If you don't remember childhood and you idealize it, you can't write books for kids because they're not real. Kids pick that up. — Robert Munsch Copy Share Image
Back in the late '90s, a writer named Daniel Handler decided that kids books were too cheerful. I mean, all the "Harry Potter" series… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
As a kid books changed how I looked at the world and helped me understand things. Books still deepen me and open my heart. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island... — Walt Disney Copy Share Image