Book Quote by Janet Fitch

When we got around to books, I was finally set, as our minister would say, on solid ground. I gorged on books. I sneaked…

— Lorene Cary

“Aside from the posters, wherever there was room, there were books. Stacks and stacks of books. Books crammed into mismatched shelves and towers of…

— Megan Crane

I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Then I celebrated my Wall of Books. I counted the volumes on my twenty-foot-long modernist bookshelf to make sure none had been misplaced or…

— Gary Shteyngart

I marveled at how they were all closed up, asleep with their secrets unseen until you reached up and took the book down from…

— Deborah Lawrenson

I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were…

— Eudora Welty

“And then when I got home I burrowed about among my books, arranging their volumes and loving the feel of them.”

— Elizabeth von Arnim

We clung to books and to our friends; they reminded us that we had another part to us.

— Annie Barrows

“At the start, we tried to be calm and objective, but that soon fell away, and the purpose of the speakers was to goad…

— Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.

— Cassandra Clare

“The books became more than just something to read; they became esoteric possessions, present on the wall because I liked the look and the…

— J.W. Ironmonger

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