Books Quote by Paula Marantz Cohen

“He doesn't understand that books don't get used up. I've tried to explain that they aren't like clothes or furniture - that we keep…

— Anonymous

“There are so many things to know and learn. She reads...and finds comfort in the fact that she will never run out of books.”

— Janice Y.K. Lee

“She says I ought to throw out at least two books for every one I buy. I had new bookshelves put up in the…

— Martin Edwards

“There wasn’t much left at the end of the month for her favorite luxuries—great clothes and hardback books, but she didn’t mind. She bargain-shopped…

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

“She‘d never taken much interest in reading. She read, of course, as one did, but liking books was something she left to other people.”

— Alan Bennett

“She didn't really enjoy reading but she liked how the books were clues. Each one a piece in a puzzle. Even when they didn't…

— Max Barry

“She is a great gobbler of books, but reads only trash, memorizing nothing and leaving out the longer descriptions.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“She is too fond of books and it has addled her mind.”

— Louisa May Alcott

“She loved the smell of books, the feel of books, the look of them on the shelf.”

— Barbara Michaels

“Have you really read all those books in your room?" She laughed, "Oh God no. I've maybe read a third of 'em. But I'm…

— John Green

“I love books. Not just for what they contain. I love them as objects too, as ever-present reminders of what they contain, and because…

— Laini Taylor

“She folds the pages of the books she reads when she wants to remember something important. Her favorite books are accordions, testaments to an…

— Gary Shteyngart