Book Quote by Thomas Harris

“He can’t remember, but he still knows exactly where to find it on his bookshelf, books are willing to wait, he says whenever visitors…

— Jenny Erpenbeck

“and he glanced at the backs of the books, with an awakened curiosity that went below the binding. No one who can read, ever…

— Charles Dickens

“Their house had real hard-cover books in it, and you often saw them lying open on the sofa, the words still warm from being…

— David Sedaris

“Books burn too easily, and they don’t keep you warm.”

— Maria Braun

“It was a bookstore, and he felt at home in bookstores, and he hadn’t had that feeling much lately. He was going to enjoy…

— Lev Grossman

“He found himself in a room not unlike the shop. All books again, packed tight on shelves or laying in piles on every surface.…

— Jenny Nimmo

“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

“If I like a book, I devour it in one sitting, and then I forget a lot. It's fine with me, because I read…

— Francesca Zappia

“I could stare at the books ... until my were as dry & fuzzy as the text, but I still didn’t know what to…

— Elizabeth Hein

“He ran his finger down the hardcover keyboard of book spines. Individual memories of each, particularly his first experience with every title, burned through…

— Anonymous

“My father from long habit took a book with him to the table and then, remembering my presence, furtively dropped it under his chair.”

— Evelyn Waugh

“Why are you doing this?” One of his hands caressed the books. “Because books are made to be read,” I told him. “And you…

— Katherine Allred