Always Quote by Emma Watson

“and read the books that always seem to Jenga up on her bedside table without her managing to actually read them”

— Nickolas Butler

Never far from a dining table, the characters in Heather A. Slomski's limpid and elegant debut collection are not given to melodramatics. Civility reigns,…

— Jaimy Gordon

“The kitchen table is where we mark milestones, divulge dreams, bury hatchets, make deals, give thanks, plan vacations, and tell jokes. It's also where…

— Doris Christopher

I'm still a bit of a reading glutton, I think, because I browse, read a bit of the back copy, flip through the book,…

— Jesmyn Ward

I'm always working on a few different stories at once, so there's always some really big coffee table book I'm carrying around.

— Mo Rocca

“Out of habit, she stopped by the bookshelf in the living room to see if there was a paperback that she could stuff into…

— Emily Croy Barker

“Celia Bowen sits at a desk surrounded by piles of books. She ran out of space for her library some time ago, but instead…

— Erin Morgenstern

I know what I can bring to the table wherever it is.

— Ryan Tannehill

“What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! I went in and found the table laden with books. I looked in and…

— Virginia Woolf

One of the maddening ironies of writing books is that it leaves so little time for reading others'. My bedside is piled with books,…

— Mary Roach

“We have a lot of books in our house. They are our primary decorative motif-books in piles and on the coffee table, framed book…

— Louise Erdrich

“there.” Annie finished cleaning up in the kitchen, went to the makeshift office, and dropped into the swivel chair behind the desk. The office,…

— Rayven T. Hill