Bookcases Quote by Louise Penny

“Books were everywhere in their large apartment. Histories, biographies, novels, studies on Quebec antiques, poetry. Placed in orderly bookcases. Just about every table had…

— Louise Penny

But what struck me was the book-madness of the place--books lay scattered across the unmade bed and the top of a battered-looking desk, books…

— Steven Millhauser

The young need discipline and a full bookcase.

— Vivienne Westwood

“The bookcases were lined with titles, hundreds of books shelved by subject in alphabetical order.-Everything from aberrant behavior to the mysteries of zen.”

— Tami Hoag

Meanwhile, as we read, two little girls slept as if couched on zephyrs on the south side of the parlor floor, in a room…

— Mary Cantwell

What I saw next stopped me dead in my tracks. Books. Not just one or two dozen, but hundreds of them. In crates. In…

— Jennifer Donnelly

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.

— Anatole Broyard

“all around the walls there are bookcases. They're filled with books. Books and books and books, right out in plain view, no locks, no…

— Margaret Atwood

My father always says, ‘Never trust anyone who has a TV bigger than their bookshelf.’ So I make sure I read. Back at home,…

— Emilia Clarke

I own a hundred and fifty books, but I have no bookcase. Nobody will lend me a bookcase.

— Henny Youngman

Let your bookcases and your shelves be your gardens and your pleasure-grounds. Pluck the fruit that grows therein, gather the roses, the spices, and…

— Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon

The Pulitzer has nothing to do with me; it's more about people's perceptions of me, whatever they may be. I'm not being humble -…

— David Lindsay-Abaire