Book Quote by Carolyn Wells

..you do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you.

— Elie Wiesel

I got in the habit of giving away a book as soon as I've finished it because I lived in a housing co-op at…

— Emma Donoghue

I hoard books. They are people who do not leave.

— Anne Sexton

You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.

— Salman Rushdie

“Leaving any bookstore is hard, especially on a day in August, when the street outside burns and glares, and the books inside are cool…

— Jane Smiley

Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay…

— Markus Zusak

There are many ways of discarding [books]. You can give them to friends,--or enemies,--or to associations or to poor Southern libraries. But the surest…

— Carolyn Wells

When I travel, I can leave everything at home apart from books. I curate my holiday reading rigorously and would be devastated if I…

— Lisa Jewell

A book is never finished; it's abandoned.

— Gene Fowler

I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out.

— Norman MacCaig

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.

— Bernard Baruch

It is a mistake to think that books have come to stay. The human race did without them for thousands of years and may…

— E M Forster