Books Quote by Mike Mullin

“The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait." ( About Books; Recoiling, Rereading, Retelling , New York Times, February 22, 1987)”

— Anatole Broyard

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

— Anatole Broyard

“History was what had happened; class was something you read about in a book.”

— Amit Chaudhuri

“In the old days, books had awful covers and marvelous content; nowadays, the opposite happens.”

— Giacomo Leopardi

“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

“I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much for reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what…

— Anne Tyler

“Once, books appealed to a few people, here, there, everywhere. They could afford to be different. The world was roomy. But then the world…

— Ray Bradbury

“I walked to the bookcase and examined the storybooks inside. As a girl, I had dreamed of having stacks of books at my disposal--stories…

— Sarah Jio

“Fueled by the need to interpret the past, to explore the present, and to imagine the future, each generation shapes the world of books.”

— Pawan Mishra

“When I had no books and had to learn everything I needed off by heart, and when I had to hide what books I…

— Jeanette Winterson

“"It's not books you need, it's some of the things that once were in books.”

— Ray Bradbury

“I’d rather be an unknown book in the library of time, than a bestseller in the store of mankind.”

— Stephan Attia