Abusive Quote by Sherman Alexie

“Corliss wondered what happens to a book that sits unread on a library shelf for thirty years. Can a book rightfully be called a…

— Sherman Alexie

“How many books do you have here?” Corliss asked. “Two million, one hundred thousand, and eleven,” the librarian said proudly, but Corliss was frightened.…

— Sherman Alexie

The librarian spoke in a reverential whisper. Corliss knew she'd misjudged this passionate woman. Maybe she dressed poorly, but she was probably great in…

— Sherman Alexie

Her library would have been valuable to a bibliophile except she treated her books execrably. I would rarely open a volume that she had…

— Pat Conroy

There were two kinds of students who liked the library: those who devoured one book after another and those who savored the same book…

— Rachel Simon

“She herself was a victim of that lust for books which rages in the breast like a demon, and which cannot be stilled save…

— Robertson Davies

There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They were familiar…

— Cornelia Funke

To begin with, it's true, she read with trepidation and some unease. The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea…

— Alan Bennett

“And to love such a librarian requires a surrendering to her eccentricities, a bowing to her pathological quietness, an obeisance to a reticence that…

— Jesse Giles Christiansen

“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 did not want to read this book from start to finish, or rather, she thought perhaps it did not want her to. Instead…

— Catherynne M. Valente

She had always been a reader… but now she was obsessed. Since her discovery of the book hoard downstairs from her job, she’d been…

— Louise Erdrich