Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt Quotes

Ordinary people have big TVs. Extraordinary people have big libraries.

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.

Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.

Books do furnish a room.

I could listen to the radio and I had access to books from time to time. Not all the time.

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

I fell in love with the piano. I knew it was me. I was dying to play.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

I get caught up in my bubble of reading, writing, or music.

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn't dignified enough to qualify.

People don't care about books. They care about ideas.

I played piano, I learned a lot about music.

I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops. I love literature. If you want to understand art, it's important to understand what is also happening in literature, in music, in science, in architecture.

Books is our main type of content, but we include user-generated content and will include other verticals such as scientific papers, sheet music, and comic books.

A great library contains the diary of the human race.

My memory of my household is of one immersed in books and music. I have a very intimate relationship with Bengali literature, particularly Tagore, and my interest besides reading then was music.

I wanted to play the piano.

I started out with piano when I was little. That, for songwriting, is my favorite instrument.

I collect musical theatre anthologies. I have a whole library of them.

Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.

I got books full of music.

We will have a total chaos without books, literature, and library.

I play the saxophone, and I used to play the piano.

My grandmother had a Ph.D in library science, so I grew up in a library, and I would appreciate those books and the smell of them and how they'd have these series, and it was cool to me. I always felt like, if I had an opportunity, I'd create an album that felt like a series.