Reading Nook Quotes

... it has always seemed to me that books are the supreme decorations of a room

To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout.

A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with "a sort of greedy enjoyment," as Marcel Proust said of those rooms of his old home whose air was "saturated with the bouquet of silence."

For me reading a book is what I like doing, curled up in a corner in a comfortable chair.

In design-speak, 'a library' means a room lined with books, floor-to ceiling, but it all depends on the space you have. You may have a free-standing bookshelf of your favorite books if that's all you have room for.

In the houses of the humble a little library in my opinion is a most precious possession.

I can look at my books with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough.

My favorite place to read is next to the pond in my backyard.

Benches and books have things in common beyond the fact that they're generally to do with sitting. Both are forms of public privacy, intimate spaces widely shared.

Me and my books in the same apartment, like a gherkin in its vinegar.

Her home is the burrow of a bibliophile hobbit -- low-ceilinged, close-walled, and brimming over with books.

I read on my iPad when I travel. I listen to audiobooks in the car. I read books in my bedroom, where I have a comfortable couch, a lamp and two dogs to keep me warm.

nothing decorates a home like books. There they are, waiting to decorate the mind, too!

One day, when I own a house, I'll keep a library full of books. Books are different from other possessions-they're more like friends.

I have a Manhattan club chair in dark espresso leather that I always read in. It's a place where I can contemplate other people's thoughts and stir my imagination.

My night stand is permanently jammed with books I want to read.

My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.

I got hit by the bug of reading - not via a person, but via the one-room library in our small town. I remember that the children's books were in the right-hand corner near the floor. Often when I went there, I was the only visitor.

I buy books, I have shelves of books. I love to read.

Home is where your books are.

A man's library is a sort of harem.

Some people are happy when they are at the sea; I'm happy when I'm standing in front of a shelf of books. It feels like the known place and also the beginning of a new adventure. It has that simultaneous paradoxical effect of making me feel absolutely calm and very excited.

To me, the nicest luxury would be to have a room where I could keep all my books in one place - and have space for more.

My night stand is more like a geological structure: a bunch of books piled on the floor with its own strata.

The London Library in Piccadilly is the best place for a sleep.