Books Quote by Don Borchert

“The broken spine of the book shows the webbing of binder's string, and my fingers have worn white spots in the cover.”

— Susan Straight

“The glory of the library for me is how many of the books are in poor physical condition. They are books that have been…

— Linda Grant

“ Books — the warm, leather-skinned weight of them in your hands, the way they smelled when you lifted them close to your face.…

— Richard K. Morgan

“The book is open, spine cracked, abused in a way no one with respect for paper should ever do.”

— Erika Swyler

“This is no way to treat a book,” he said. “Look, he's bent the spine right back. People always do that, they've got no…

— Terry Pratchett

“The bookcase tipped and the book covers opened like wings over an underbelly of white feathers, dirty with ink.”

— Anthony Marra

“The library at home when she was child had been her refuge. She gravitated to it. When she was anxious, just taking a book…

— M.J. Rose

“Sir, the fact that the book is in a public library brings no comfort.Books are the one element in which I am personally and…

— Harold Laski

“This same library is my den — the only corner of the Hall-house where I am safe from my … cousins. They never venture…

— Walter Scott

“Though I enjoy the occasional eBook from time to time, I will only stop reading books printed on paper when they pry them from…

— H.L. Stephens

“It was my sister's fault. She brought...books home before I was old enough to check them out of the library myself.”

— Michael Patrick Hearn

“I wrote your name over and over—on scraps of paper, in books and on the back of my wrists. I carved it like sacred…

— Lang Leav