Books Quote by Sydney Smith

“How truly novel. The emotional life of furniture. I never.”

— Gregory Maguire

“nothing furnishes a room like books”

— Terry Fallis

“My bookshelf was my favorite part of my room. It had a calming presence. Maybe there was something to be said about the feeling…

— Katie Kacvinsky

“I don't even know what a room without books looks like.”

— Love The Stacks Bookstore

“It makes me almost hope I'm not a genius; they must be very wearying to have about - and awfully destructive to the furniture.”

— Jean Webster

“...I had decided to tidy up a bit. Actually it hadn't really been a choice. The situation had got out of hand, particularly because…

— Gianrico Carofiglio

“I wanted shelves for my books, and a finer chair for this desk. Of course there should be another library. What was a house…

— Anne Rice

“The furniture would have missed you? Furniture's knowing all right. Not much gets past the things in a room, I daresay, and chairs and…

— Elizabeth Bowen

“A room without books makes book-lovers shudder”

— Cicero Tabitha

“If nothing else, a house is a place to keep books in.”

— Robert Pogue Harrison

“To look at those (few) books in the dawning recognition that what they furnish is not a room, but a self.”

— Rick Gekoski

“I am always there. But they don't care if I am because I am furniture. I don't get hit I don't get fondled I…

— Thalia Chaltas