Books Quote by Anonymous

... I find myself coming out of the library with all women writers. I keep hoping the library attendant won't notice, but when 8…

— Eve Babitz

My only books were women's looks.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

Books were my pass to personal freedom.

— Oprah Winfrey

My first book, 'Running Loose', was censored back in 1983 or '84. Every book I've written since has been censored somewhere.

— Chris Crutcher

My books, at any rate, deserved to be burned.

— Alfred Doblin

Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted…

— Rita Dove

Books have always been my home. I ransacked the library regularly from the time we moved to the States. I read on the fire…

— Mitali Perkins

Library books were, I suddenly realized, promiscuous, ready to lie down in the arms of anyone who asked. Not like bookstore books, which married…

— Elizabeth McCracken

I write novels about women, except for one: 'Rococo', about a man, a New Jersey decorator. But even that book had a woman on…

— Adriana Trigiani

When I was a boy in the late 1950s, the public library refused to stock books by Edgar Rice Burroughs. They were regarded as…

— Michael Dirda

Every couple of years when your book comes out then you have to go into these fights with the publisher and the publicist and…

— Robert Greene

There weren't too many books by women that were taught in school, so I read those on my own, and the books I read…

— Jane Smiley