Book Quote by Val McDermid

As movers and the moved both know, books are heavy freight, the weight of refrigerators and sofas broken up into cardboard boxes. They make…

— John Updike

I long ago ran out of bookshelf space and so, like a museum with its art, simply rotate my books from the boxes to…

— Michael Dirda

When I was a boy, all the books I owned fit on a single shelf. Now I have several thousand stacked around the house.

— Anthony Doerr

I want my own books to have their own shelves," you said, and that's how I knew it would be okay to live together.

— David Levithan

It has always been my experience that, whatever groupings I choose for my books, the space in which I plan to lodge them necessarily…

— Alberto Manguel

Decorators never quite saw the point of massing books. Books brought colour to a room and filled it up, but shelves bearing just one…

— Peter York

The thing that was much harder than I expected was figuring out what to do with 20 tons of books. That led to a…

— Ian Christe

“As long as you have any floor space at all, you have room for books! Just make two stacks of books the same height,…

— Jan Karon

“Cozy place you got here,” he said, looking around the office. “You read all them books?” “I fear not. But one cannot simply get…

— Sharon Lee

It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much.

— Brandon Sanderson

It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of…

— Agatha Christie

“untrue. The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been around…

— Terry Pratchett