Art Quote by Henry David Thoreau

There is a sort of homely truth and naturalness in some books which is very rare to find, and yet looks cheap enough. There…

— Henry David Thoreau

Home is where the books are

— Anonymous

What really makes a home a home is seeing the books of whoever lives there.

— Antonia Lofaso

“There is no necessary connection between the concepts of home and of prettiness; what we call a home is merely any place that succeeds…

— Alain de Botton

Home is where your books are.

— Erica Jong

I've also never written about home in this way before. I guess a lot of it is subconscious and I am intuitively making these…

— Jesmyn Ward

Home is the first and most important school of character. It is there that every human being receives his best moral training, or his…

— Samuel Smiles

“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

Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and times gone…

— Maeve Brennan

“Certainly it would not be too much to say that the home is the communal embodiment of family life. Thus the purity of the…

— Nicholas Bullock

I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a…

— Nicole Krauss

I've always been charmed by houses, and descriptions of them are prominent in my novels. So prominent, in fact, that my editor once pointed…

— Anita Shreve