Booksellers Quote by Louis Agassiz

Sometimes the very best of all summer books is a blank notebook. Get one big enough, and you can practice sketching the lemon slice…

— Michael Dirda

I never understood the concept of a fluffy summer read. For me, summer reading means beaches, long train rides and layovers in foreign airports.…

— Maria Semple

Books are carefully folded forests/void of autumn/bound from the sun

— Saul Williams

“Try to avoid your house catching fire, as this does no good at all. And while your house is still intact, it is a…

— Joseph Connolly

The summer has seized you, as when, last month in Amalfi, I saw lemons as large as your desk-side globe-that miniature map of the…

— Anne Sexton

Still, even without the country or a lake, the summer was a fine thing, particularly when you were at the beginning of it, looking…

— Edward Eager

Books entered my house under cover of night, from the four winds, smuggled in by woodland creatures, and then they never left. Books collected…

— Anonymous

Apparently textbooks were an endangered species here in Bixby, Oklahoma.

— Scott Westerfeld

The library in summer is the most wonderful thing because there you get books on any subject and read them each for only as…

— Polly Horvath

Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.

— Carl Sagan

There's a lot of 'how to adopt' books, but there's no practical resource for, say, school supplies.

— Karamo Brown

What is it about summer that makes children grow? We feed and water them more. They do get more sun, but that probably doesn't…

— Nancy Gibbs