Ashes Quote by Charles Baudelaire

Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room piled high with cases in my father's name; Piled high, packed large, where, creeping…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Books were cities I'd never visited, filled with pillars of great thoughts and streets of phrases, mazes of abstruse sentence structures and alleys of…

— Jung-Myung Lee

Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.

— Michael Caine

Each spine was an encapsulated memory, each book represented hours, days of pleasure, of immersion into words.

— Audrey Niffenegger

“I grew as fussy and particular about where to put what, which books should lie where, what cushion should grace what corner as a…

— Anne Rivers Siddons

“Over the years, my church gave me passage into a menagerie of exotic words unknown in the South: "introit," "offertory," "liturgy," "movable feast," "the…

— Pat Conroy

I go into my library, and all history unrolls before me. I breathe the morning air of the world while the scent of Eden's…

— Alexander Smith

“daughter of the past who walked in all wide-eyed and exhaling like she’d finally found what she was looking for. It was a look…

— Patti Callahan Henry

I was brought up in Florence, a beautiful medieval town whose rhythm is completely in antiquity.

— Oleg Cassini

“He saw a square room furnished as a library. The entire section of the walls which he could spy was covered from floor to…

— James Stephens

“Aside from the posters, wherever there was room, there were books. Stacks and stacks of books. Books crammed into mismatched shelves and towers of…

— Megan Crane

“the words carved above the cathedral of my childhood”

— Daniel Keyes