Book Quote by John Burnside

I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now--only that place where the books are kept.

— John Steinbeck

Because I have two houses, I invariably get immersed in a book and then discover it's at the other house.

— Lois Lowry

I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home was the book to…

— Alberto Manguel

The books I'm writing are houses that I build for myself.

— Etel Adnan

“This leads me to the contention that simply messing around with books is one of the very best ways to pass time that there…

— Julie Rugg

I grew up in a house full of books.

— Gillian Flynn

Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out…

— Dean Koontz

I got in the habit of giving away a book as soon as I've finished it because I lived in a housing co-op at…

— Emma Donoghue

Whether or not you welcome it, moving house requires you to make choices about the past as you move into the future. What of…

— Julia Gillard

One day, when I own a house, I'll keep a library full of books. Books are different from other possessions-they're more like friends.

— Blake Mycoskie

Whenever I've been stuck on a project, it's always brought me solace to the return to books that moved me in the past. It's…

— Leslie Jamison

I grew up in a house with very few books.

— Ken Livingstone