Quote by Kenneth Calhoun

“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

“pointing to the rows of black spines on the shelves.”

— Patricia Gibney

“Perhaps, over the years, like most things, the walls had aged. Thinned. Worn thin by the day to day endlessness of its own existence.”

— Chesya Burke

“She was awake, alive, full of ideas like branches in a greenhouse, growing thick and rife against the glass.”

— Carolina De Robertis

“On the shelves along the wall my stacks. Jumbled and worn. Pagers curled and stained. Spines creased and cracked.”

— Lucas Klauss

“The house was a vast labyrinth of books. Volumes were stacked from floor to ceiling on every wall, dark, crackling, redolent of leather bindings,…

— Isabel Allende

“Today she felt especially comforted by the books that climbed the walls. They were a reminder that any knowledge she desired was hers for…

— Liv Constantine

She surrounded herself with books at work and at home. Her living space was a testament to her first and abiding love with shelves…

— Nora Roberts

She said it out loud, the words distributed into a room that was full of cold air and books. Books everywhere! Each wall was…

— Markus Zusak

“Here, in this house, her recollections glowed like embers on the hearth, and each night, in their warmth, she’d take a memory or two…

— Ari Berk

“And books! ...she would buy them all over and over again; she would buy up every copy, I believe, to prevent their falling into…

— Jane Austen

“It wasn’t just the quiet solitude of the four thousand square foot space that appealed to her, but the smell of the newspapers, magazines,…

— D.W. Ulsterman