Bookcases Quotes

• So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.

  Roald Dahl

  Motivational, Wall, Book

  Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, p.135, Penguin

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• The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.

  Anatole Broyard

  Portraits

  "About Books, Recoiling, Rereading, Retelling". New York Times, February 22, 1987.

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• People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Reading, People

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• A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him

  Walter Mosley

  Book, Men, Needs

  Walter Mosley (2009). “The Long Fall: The First Leonid McGill Mystery”, p.78, Penguin

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• A bookcase is as good as a view, as much of a panorama as the sight of a city or a river. There are dawns and sunsets in books - storms and zephyrs.

  Anatole Broyard

  Book, Sunset, Sight

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• A deserted library in the morning - there's something about it that really gets to me. All possible words and ideas are there, resting peacefully.

  Haruki Murakami

  Inspiring, Rest In Peace, Morning

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Mar 31, 2011

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• I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific.

  Virginia Woolf

  Divine

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.184, Virginia Woolf

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• Let your bookcases and your shelves be your gardens and your pleasure-grounds. Pluck the fruit that grows therein, gather the roses, the spices, and the myrrh.

  Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon

  Book, Garden, Rose

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• Dear and most respected bookcase! I welcome your existence, which has for over one hundred years been devoted to the radiant ideals of goodness and justice.

  Anton Chekhov

  Years, Justice, Welcome

  "The Cherry Orchard". Play by Anton Chekhov, 1904.

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• Myrna could spend happy hours browsing bookcases. She felt if she could just get a good look at a person’s bookcase and their grocery cart, she’d pretty much know who they were.

  Louise Penny

  Looks, Happy Hour, Looking Good

  Louise Penny (2015). “The Chief Inspector Gamache Series”, p.175, Macmillan

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• Creating things. I love the idea of creation and creativity. Whether it's a character, a short film, a piece of music, a painting, or a bookcase - to watch something go from an idea to a creation is pretty much where it's at for me.

  Eric Lange

  Character, Creativity, Ideas

  "Eric Lange from FX's hit show The Bridge". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• My brother and I were able to fantasize far more extravagantly about our parents' tastes and desires, their aspirations and their vices, by scanning their bookcases than by snooping in their closest. Their selves were on their shelves.

  Anne Fadiman

  Brother, Self, Parent

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• The Pulitzer has nothing to do with me; it's more about people's perceptions of me, whatever they may be. I'm not being humble - I honestly do not and cannot think about that. It's a lovely piece of crystal on my bookcase, but that's all it is to me.

  David Lindsay-Abaire

  Humble, Thinking, People

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• My father always says, ‘Never trust anyone who has a TV bigger than their bookshelf.’ So I make sure I read. Back at home, I just put up a massive bookcase and asked everyone I know and love to help me fill it with their favorite books. It’s been quite nice because I’ve learned a lot about my friends and family from what they’ve been giving me. A book says a lot about a person.

  Emilia Clarke

  Father, Nice, Book

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• A knife can be a symbol, but it also better be able to cut string. And if it represent cutting free, cutting loose, in the story’s beginning, it better not be used to prop up a bookcase and then forgotten later on.

  Ansen Dibell

  Cutting, Knives, Able

  Ansen Dibell (1999). “Elements of Fiction Writing - Plot”, p.155, Writer's Digest Books

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• What I saw next stopped me dead in my tracks. Books. Not just one or two dozen, but hundreds of them. In crates. In piles on the floor. In bookcases that stretched from floor to ceiling and lined the entire room. I turned around and around in a slow circle, feeling as if I'd just stumbled into Ali Baba's cave. I was breathless, close to tears, and positively dizzy with greed.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Book, Circles, Two

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “A Gathering Light”, p.120, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I am a product of endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them. There were books in the study, books in the drawing room, books in the cloakroom, books (two deep) in the great bookcase on the landing, books in a bedroom, books piled as high as my shoulder in the cistern attic...In the seemingly endless rainy afternoons I took volume after volume from the shelves. I had always the same certainty of finding a book that was new to me as a man who walks into a field has of finding a new blade of grass.

  C. S. Lewis

  Father, Book, Men

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• The heat made people crazy. They woke from their damp bedsheets and went in search of a glass of water, surprised to find that when their vision cleared, they were holding instead the gun they kept hidden in the bookcase.

  Kristin Hannah

  Crazy, Gun, Glasses

  Kristin Hannah (2013). “Kristin Hannah's Coming Home 4-Book Bundle: On Mystic Lake, Summer Island, Distant Shores, Home Again”, p.343, Ballantine Books

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• I found a Bill Evans record in the bookcase and was listening to it while drying my hair when I realized that it was the record I had played in Naoko's room on the night of her birthday, the night she cried and I took her in my arms. That had happened only six months earlier, but it felt like something from a much remoter past. Maybe it felt that way because I had thought about it so often-too often, to the point where it had distorted my sense of time.

  Haruki Murakami

  Past, Night, Hair

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• A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him," my father had told me more than once. "A businessman has business books and a dream has novels and books of poetry. Most women like reading about love, and a true revolutionary will have books about the minutiae of overthrowing the oppressor. A person with no books is inconsequential in a modern setting, but a peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.

  Walter Mosley

  Dream, Father, Book

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• The prefect evening...lying down on the couch beside the bookcase and reading himself sleepy...Jim lying opposite him at the other end of the couch, also reading; the two of them absorbed in their books yet so completely aware of each other's presence.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Lying, Book, Reading

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• When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase.

  Linda Grant

  Proud, Penguins, Modern

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• He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.

  A. E. Hotchner

  Reading, Writing, Typewriters

  A. E. Hotchner (2009). “Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir”, p.14, Da Capo Press

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• The young need discipline and a full bookcase.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Discipline, Needs, Young

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• I think that my love of cooking grew out of my love of reading about cooking. When I was a kid, we had a bookcase in the kitchen filled with cookbooks. I would eat all my meals reading about meals I could have been having.

  Samantha Bee

  Reading, Kids, Thinking

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