Able Quote by Nick Hornby

“But with each passing year, and each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether we read…

— nick hornby

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

I suddenly had a little epiphany: all the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at…

— Nick Hornby

“A personal library is an X-ray of the owner’s soul. It offers keys to a particular temperament, an intellectual disposition, a way of being…

— Jay Parini

“There are books that I own that somehow even without reading them they mean something to me. So I think people have a relationship…

— Rem Koolhaas

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When…

— Jane Austen

For some of us, books are intrinsic to our sense of personal identity.

— John Updike

It would be hard for me to overestimate the importance of reading. Nothing can expand the mind and heart like the magic al world…

— Danielle Steel

“Some men," Flamel irresistibly added, "think of books merely as tools, others as tooling. I'm between the two; there are days when I use…

— Edith Wharton

Books are becoming everything to me. If I had at this moment any choice in life, I would bury myself in one of those…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Libraries are where most of us really fall in love with books, where we can browse and choose on our own. Its really one…

— Kim Boykin

“A library of mostly unread books is far more inspiring than a library of books already read. There’s nothing more exciting than finishing a…

— Gabe Habash