Book Quote by David Sedaris

“Their house had real hard-cover books in it, and you often saw them lying open on the sofa, the words still warm from being…

— David Sedaris

Books are like blankets, the mere sight of them around the house provides warmth and comfort. They are like mirrors, too, reflecting places I've…

— Mary Schmich

“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

“When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out from between their pages – a special…

— Haruki Murakami

Books were like old friends, with their worn covers and well-thumbed pages..

— Naomi Ragen

“Cozy place you got here,” he said, looking around the office. “You read all them books?” “I fear not. But one cannot simply get…

— Sharon Lee

Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived,…

— Lauren Willig

“Books -- they come home hot in your hands and then by increments they warm your life, like heated bricks in a New England…

— Robin R. Meyers

It was at this time that she entirely gave up on reading. The covers of books looked like coffins to her, either shabby or…

— Alice Munro

when I walk into an apartment with books on the shelves, books on the bedside tables, books on the floor, and books on the…

— Anne Fadiman

“My bookshelf was my favorite part of my room. It had a calming presence. Maybe there was something to be said about the feeling…

— Katie Kacvinsky

Back at his chair he cannot remember what he was reading. He feels the books beside him to find the one that is warm.

— Thomas Harris