About Quote by John Updike

That was the trouble with moving houses; no matter how carefully you packed the books, they never ended up on the new shelves in…

— Val McDermid

“Ask anyone with a big book collection, and they'll tell you moving them was the hardest part of the move. Take down a bookshelf…

— Lauren Leto

The thing that was much harder than I expected was figuring out what to do with 20 tons of books. That led to a…

— Ian Christe

The positive side about dealing with the logistics of moving books around is that it's better than a gym!

— Ian Christe

I think if a book has the power to move a reader, it also has the power to offend a reader. And you want…

— Katherine Paterson

I long ago ran out of bookshelf space and so, like a museum with its art, simply rotate my books from the boxes to…

— Michael Dirda

That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“Books and bookcases cropping up in stuff that I've written means that they have to be reproduced on stage or on film. This isn't…

— Alan Bennett

“One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should be "responsive to their patrons." This means…

— Connie Willis

I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved me.

— Jan Karon

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

... even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump.

— Edith Wharton