Angle Quote by David McCord

Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle.

— Franz Kafka

Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.

— Anonymous

“Books on the bookshelves And stacked on the floor Books kept in baskets And propped by the door Books in neat piles And in…

— L.R. Knost

“The house was a vast labyrinth of books. Volumes were stacked from floor to ceiling on every wall, dark, crackling, redolent of leather bindings,…

— Isabel Allende

“all around the walls there are bookcases. They're filled with books. Books and books and books, right out in plain view, no locks, no…

— Margaret Atwood

“But to tell even a tenth part of the marvels rich and beautiful that were in the house of Krothering: its cool courts and…

— E.R. Eddison

Borrowers of books, those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

— Charles Lamb

But even now, with the crates piled high in the hall, what I see most plainly about the books is that they are beautiful.…

— Leon Wieseltier

“But preserve your mistrust of the page, for a book is a fortress, a place of weeping, the key to a desert, a river…

— Sofia Samatar

If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order to survive, to protect…

— Azar Nafisi

“Built-in shelves line my bedroom, adjacent to my Japanese platform bed, purchased for its capacious rim, the better to hold those books that must…

— Pamela Paul

In the poorest cottage are Books: is one Book, wherein for several thousands of years the spirit of man has found light, and nourishment,…

— Thomas Carlyle