Book Quote by Wilbur Smith

Books are like blankets, the mere sight of them around the house provides warmth and comfort. They are like mirrors, too, reflecting places I've…

— Mary Schmich

When I grew up, my house contained only two books: the Bible and the 'Edmonds' cookbook. We were a working-class household. Books were a…

— Anthony McCarten

“We have a lot of books in our house. They are our primary decorative motif-books in piles and on the coffee table, framed book…

— Louise Erdrich

I grew up in a house with very few books.

— Ken Livingstone

Six books… my mother didn’t want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books – that…

— Jeanette Winterson

I always have at least one book with me. I try and read a book a month.

— Gus Kenworthy

I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home was the book to…

— Alberto Manguel

Never can a room look comfortable without books ... Books ought to be scattered all over the house, even in the passages, in the…

— Elisabeth of Wied

One of the maddening ironies of writing books is that it leaves so little time for reading others'. My bedside is piled with books,…

— Mary Roach

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the…

— Amy Tan

I can't imagine a home without an overflow of books. The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel…

— Louise Erdrich

My mother says that after I first visited the home of the man I later married, she knew it was serious when I told…

— Diane Setterfield