Big Quote by Marina Abramovic

I always sent my mother all these huge books I made. When my mother died, I was cleaning her cupboard, and these big books…

— Marina Abramovic

Six books… my mother didn’t want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books – that…

— Jeanette Winterson

I always balk when a so-called 'friend' gives me a book as a gift and it's 650 pages long.

— Tim Key

My mother says that after I first visited the home of the man I later married, she knew it was serious when I told…

— Diane Setterfield

I am a product of endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them. There…

— C. S. Lewis

I can't throw books away. My wife is always telling me to get rid of some.

— Matthew Macfadyen

“I am a product [...of] endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them. There…

— C.S. Lewis

Books were a huge part of my childhood growing up. We would go on vacation, and my mom was always carting manuscripts around.

— David Grann

I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.

— Zadie Smith

You are a shelf of books without the pages.

— Gabrielle Aplin

Books arrive in my head all at once, and then it becomes an 18-month process of getting it all down on paper.

— Douglas Coupland

Books make great gifts because... [they don't] come in any particular size, so you don't have to be embarrassed if you bought somebody the…

— Valerie Bertinelli