Books Quote by Kate Carlisle

“It had a crisp paper jacket, unlike the paper-covered library books I was used to, and the way the pages parted, I could tell…

— Allison Hoover Bartlett

I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they'd once belonged to the sea.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“From the moment I own a book, even before I open it to the first page, I feel that it has in some way…

— Joe Queenan

Few books today are forgivable. Black on canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper are perhaps feasible.

— R. D. Laing

“…found the use of actual old-school books off putting, but over time, he'd learned there was something very satisfying to the turning of pages,…

— Neal Shusterman

Books were like old friends, with their worn covers and well-thumbed pages..

— Naomi Ragen

“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.”

— Anonymous

It felt good to be surrounded by books, by all this solid knowledge, by these objects that could be ripped page by page but…

— David Levithan

All books are in safe hands with me. They're my children, my inky children, and I look after them well. I keep the sunlight…

— Anonymous

“I have books in every corner of my house. 'Cleaning' my books is a pointless endeavor.”

— Love The Stacks Bookstore

“The book is open, spine cracked, abused in a way no one with respect for paper should ever do.”

— Erika Swyler

I'm not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten. I am very happy when…

— Richard Scarry