Architect Quote by Herman Melville

“But I now leave my cetological System standing thus unfinished, even as the great Cathedral of Cologne was left, with the crane still standing…

— Herman Melville

“I do not find it easy to get sufficiently far away from this Book, in the first sensations of having finished it, to refer…

— Charles Dickens

“Accursed, blasted, heartless things [books]! Full of empty promises, full of false lures, always making you hungry, never satisfying you, never!”

— Cornelia Funke

“I remarked in the original Preface to this Book, that I did not find it easy to get sufficiently far away from it, in…

— Charles Dickens

“For the last year and a half this room had been my 'pensive citadel:' here I had read and studied through all the hours…

— Thomas de Quincey

“But if you can fix some conception of a true human state of life to be striven for — life, good for all men,…

— John Ruskin

“To compensate a little for the treachery and weakness of my memory, so extreme that it has happened to me more than once to…

— Michel de Montaigne

“He saw a square room furnished as a library. The entire section of the walls which he could spy was covered from floor to…

— James Stephens

“Ah, God, it were an easy Matter to choose a Calling had one all Time to live in! I should be fifty Years a…

— John Barth

“Sometimes a book that appeared dull or off-putting would somehow still draw you in, call to you, and when you finally embarked on the…

— Liam W. Russell

“Not marble nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme, But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept…

— William Shakespeare

“My attic study is full of books, around a thousand of them, of which I might have read a half, the others lie in…

— Richard Gwyn