Book Shelf Quotes: top 34 famous quotes about Book Shelf

Book Shelf Quotes & Sayings

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Never write a book and let it sit on a shelf — Marvela Dawnay

A book which is left on a shelf is a dead thing but it is also a chrysalis, an inanimate object packed with the potential to burst into new life. — Susan Hill

Don't buy books for your shelf, buy them for yourself. — Saji Ijiyemi

I pulled a book by Robinson Jeffers off the shelf one day. It was powerfully moving. Tears ran down my face. That's when I became a poet. — William Everson

We exist in the world of books. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Write the book you wish you could find on the shelf but can't. — Maggie Stiefvater

She's not a cookie, or a book, or a record on a shelf. You can't just play with her and then put her back. — Kathleen Glasgow

I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf. — Patti Smith

It's true that this is not a book you stick on a shelf. This is a story you will instead always carry in your heart. — Terry Goodkind

Computers will never take the place of books. You can't stand on a floppy disk to reach a high shelf. — Sam Ewing

I think I write in order to discover on my shelf a new book that I would enjoy reading, or to see a new play that would engross me. — Thornton Wilder

In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology — Barack Obama

Passion for books is the desire to read. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Think how quiet a book is on a shelf, he said, just sitting there, unopened. Then think what happens when you open it. — Ali Smith

It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them. — Erica Jong

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot. — Charles Dickens

But every living soul is a book of their own history, which sits on the ever-growing shelf in the library of human memories. — Jack Gantos

The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt. — Calvin Trillin

I marveled at how they were all closed up, asleep with their secrets unseen until you reached up and took the book down from the shelf. — Deborah Lawrenson

Vegan With A Vengeance is on my kitchen shelf. This fun and creative book is delicious for people like me, who don't eat pets. — Joan Jett

I'm not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten. — Richard Scarry

My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them. — Jorge Luis Borges

You are a shelf of books without the pages. — Gabrielle Aplin

One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long. — Charles William Eliot

Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf — Emilia Clarke

A book in hand is worth ten on the shelf — Anonymous

He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse. — F Scott Fitzgerald

In seventh grade ... I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I doubted. — Beverly Cleary

The love for books is a paradise. — Lailah Gifty Akita

copy instead of finding the book on the shelf. And the finding is half the fun. Browsing on either side, above and below, that is the joy of it. — Mary Jane Hathaway

Write the book you've always wanted to read, but can't find on the shelf. — Maggie Stiefvater

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. — Henry Miller

My father always said, 'Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf' - so I make sure I read. — Emilia Clarke

If you want to live a top shelf life then you need to stand on the books you have read. Never stop learning, never stop growing. — Jim Rohn