Personal Library Quotes

“A library of mostly unread books is far more inspiring than a library of books already read. There’s nothing more exciting than finishing a book, and walking over to your shelves to figure out what you’re going to read next."

[The Wonderful and Terrible Habit of Buying Too Many Books, PWxyz (news blog of Publishers Weekly), February 16th, 2012]”
― Gabe Habash

“When you stand inside somebody's library, you get a powerful sense of who they are, and not just who they are now but who they've been. . . . It's a wonderful thing to have in a house. It's something I worry is endangered by the rise of the e-book. When you turn off an e-book, there's no map. All that's left behind is a chunk of gray plastic. ~ Lev Grossman”
― Leah Price, Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books

“The visitor enters and says, "What a lot of books! Have you read them all?" ...The best answer is the one always used by Roberto Leydi: "And more, dear sir, many more," which freezes the adversary and plunges him into a state of awed admiration. But I find it merciless and angst-generating. Now I have fallen back on the riposte: "No, these are the ones I have to read by the end of the month. I keep the others in my office.”
― Umberto Eco

“kitaplık sahibi tüm insanlar gibi aurelianus da sahip olduğu bütün kitapları hakkını vererek okumamış olmakla suçlardı kendini.bu tartışma ona kitaplığının raflarında ihmal edildikleri için ayıplar gibi duran birçok kitabı gözden geçirme fırsatı verdi.(Çev.:Tomris Uyar)”
― Jorge Luis Borges, The Aleph and Other Stories

“Though I doubted I would ever be blessed with a mate of my own, I still wished to plan for the possibility. The bookstores in Starzzia are popular among the human females who live here. Eventually, I went from purchasing books from Earth to further my studies to buying them in the hope that one day I would have a mate of my own who might enjoy them. And offspring, too. I have collected many children’s books as well.”
― Sue Mercury, Alien Warrior's Promise