Book Quote by Rebecca Makkai

“The library drew Bean down the street, as it had drawn all of us over the years. Our parents had trained us to become…

— Eleanor Brown

“sometimes, what i see is a library in a rural community. all the tall shelves in the big open room. and the pencils in…

— Tracy K. Smith

“Books were cities I'd never visited, filled with pillars of great thoughts and streets of phrases, mazes of abstruse sentence structures and alleys of…

— Jung-Myung Lee

“Behind the counter, I slouched on my stool in the sun and sucked up the summer as If I could hold every drop of…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“Here stand my books, line upon line They reach the roof, and row by row, They speak of faded tastes of mine, And things…

— Andrew Lang

“Books can be the people we never get to meet, ancestors or far neighbors.”

— Elizabeth Knox

“This book began with a vision I received one night planning a lesson for my Sunday school class at Family Ties at Peachtree Road…

— Bryant Cornett

“When I was young I studied in the west suburb, with the birds of the forest as my only neighbours. I would open a…

— Wang Chieh

“The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.”

— Ross McDonald

“A huge maze of tents and mud huts and homes built from plastic and aluminum siding in a labyrinth of narrow passageways littered with…

— Khaled Hosseini And The Mountains Echoed

“Outside, across the putrid moat and under the dark mute trees, I would often lie and dream for hours about what I read in…

— H.P Lovecraft

“Everyone in our town has a story--but it's not the one he tells himself. Its author has a thousand eyes, a thousand ears, and…

— Carsten Jensen