Bookshelves Quote by Malcolm Gladwell

We're all amateur investigators. We scan bookshelves, we ogle trinkets left out in the open, we calculate the cost of furniture and study the…

— Lisa Lutz

You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Seeing one's books on the shelf tells you so much about the way somebody has, over the years, put together their private library, which…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Every room I've lived in since I was given my own room at eleven was lined with, and usually overfull of, books. My employment…

— Jonathan Lethem

I know I'm old-fashioned, but there's just something about the act of looking at books versus taking in information on a screen, which is…

— Annabelle Selldorf

when I walk into an apartment with books on the shelves, books on the bedside tables, books on the floor, and books on the…

— Anne Fadiman

After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine…

— Umberto Eco

You can only absorb so much information by reading a book before getting your hands dirty and learning the hard way.

— Bryan Baeumler

“In my living room there are two large bookcases, each one eight feet tall, and they have about five hundred books between them. If…

— James Elkins

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin,…

— Mark Twain

I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.

— Charles Bukowski

Books are like rocks. You hold one in your hand and look at it in various lights to get a sense of it, and…

— John Darnielle