Book Quote by Charles Bukowski

It's so much better to hand over a finished book than having all these people waiting.

— Ernest Cline

“Does anybody else find it annoying when you put a hold on like 5 books but it takes like a month for all of…

— Ling

People tend to find books when they are ready for them.

— Neil Gaiman

None of my books has been ever in my head; after they're finished, they go. It's like being a sort of medium; you just…

— Peter Ackroyd

I confess that I am a messy, disorganized and impatient reader: if the book doesn't grab me in the first 40 pages, I abandon…

— Isabel Allende

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

— Salman Rushdie

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

— Anne Sexton

“I have always had this sense of books as lined up and waiting, patiently waiting, for people to find them;”

— Chaim Potok

Books arrive in my head all at once, and then it becomes an 18-month process of getting it all down on paper.

— Douglas Coupland

Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely.

— George Steiner

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

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the…

— Henry Miller