Book Room Quotes

I was anticipating that some readers might misread [ the book]ROOM itself as a hymn to homeschooling. — Emma Donoghue

When I'm writing I don't want anyone else in the room - including myself. — Jonathan Franzen

Give me a room whose every nook is dedicated to a book. — Robert Southey

All my high school papers were written in the rare book room. — James Sanborn

I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book. — Groucho Marx

Mrs Moonsong sat in the tiny room lit only by flickering candlelight and a small beam of moonlight which slanted through the small roof window. — Helen Laycock

Wrote my book in many places - houses in Florida, and in a cabin on a Wisconsin lake, and in a hotel room in Las Vegas. I — Neil Gaiman

My favorite daydream, it was this: I would be reading a book alone in my room, and no one would ever, ever interrupt me. — Ann Tyler

The silence of the room was disturbed by a book that flew open with fluttering leaves, — Dorothy Scarborough

Brita said, 'I read at home, I read in hotels, I take a book with me on a twenty-minute trip to the dentist. Then I read in the waiting room. — Don DeLillo

Writing a book without promoting it is like waving to someone in a dark room. You know what have you done but nobody else does."
~Madi Preda — Madi Preda

The room didn't look haunted or eerie now;it was only melancholy in it's faded grandeur. — Elizabeth Peters

When I am near the end of a book, I have to sleep in the same room with it. — Joan Didion

I have left my book,
I have left my room,
For I heard you singing
Through the gloom. — James Joyce

I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room. — Steven Wright

As I look around the quiet room, I see a thousand leather covers like doorways into worlds unknown. — Laura Whitcomb

Any room in our house at any time in the day was there to read in or to be read to. — Eudora Welty

I must have books everywhere. They're the soul of a room-they reveal the taste, the interests, and the secrets of whoever lives there. — Diane Von Furstenberg

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has to the book I am reading. — Igor Stravinsky

The sun was slowly setting in the west, casting golden beams of light into the somber old room. — Eleanor Porter

No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things. — Joseph Joubert

I just want to stay in my hotel room, read my book. I enjoy that private time. — Hope Solo

He took my hand, and pulled me into his living room where a book was open on his sofa. It was poetry, of course, because he was perfect. — Cora Carmack

This,' whispered the Doctor to Romana, 'is going to be like trying to find a book about needles in a room full of books about haystacks. — Gareth Roberts

Awesome ... " Jared spoke up from the other side of the room. "Ember, the Otherworld's wonder mutt. — Stacey Marie Brown

I must say, in the case of "Room," both the book and the film, I don't think being a lesbian author held me back at all. — Emma Donoghue

I hate water. It's so boring. And it takes up so much room in your stomach. — J.T. Geissinger

I'll have enough books when they fill my room like the stars fill the sky. — E.V. Fairfall

The better the book the more room for the reader. — Holbrook Jackson

Do you all have a living room floor or a bedroom floor? Then you can write a book. — Patricia Reilly Giff

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. — Groucho Marx

If you have enough room for your books, you don't have enough books. — James Bryce

The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible. — Anita Diament

Books and teachers are always "right", and we learn only from them, not from any other resource in the room, such as our friends. — Joseph Barrell

When a locked-room mystery doesn't work, the solution makes you groan, and the book gets hurled across the room. — Adrian McKinty

I'm an open book in a closed room. — Christina Strigas

Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don't know how mean she looks. — Chuck Berry

The rest of my room is book shelves. I hoard books. They are people who do not leave. — Anne Sexton

I rushed to the living room to protect myself from I don't know what, behind my best friend, a book. — Marjane Satrapi

Students learn best not by reading the Great Books in a closed room but by opening the doors and windows of experience. — Thomas Ehrlich

When you are reading a book in a dark room, and come to a difficult part, you take it to a window to get more light. So take your Bibles to Christ. — Robert Murray M'Cheyne

A room without books is like a life without meaning. — Thomas Jefferson

If I have nothing but a room full of books, it is enough for me to survive life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Do you know what writing a book is? It's sitting alone in a room for weeks without making contact with another human. I felt like Howard Hughes. — Jon Stewart