Nate Berkus Quotes

I have two quite large houses, and every cupboard and drawer is stuffed with books.

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.

Oh, I wish I organized my books. But I don't. I'm not an organized person. The best I can do is put the books I really like in one sort of general area, and poetry in another.

The bedroom in my apartment is far too small to hold a nightstand. There is, however, this bookshelf. Yes, I stow whatever I'm reading on the lower shelf, but more importantly, it's where I keep a collection of ghost books.

It sounds like a brag but I've got a separate room in my flat just for unread books; I don't let my read books touch my unread books.

Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted.

It has always been my experience that, whatever groupings I choose for my books, the space in which I plan to lodge them necessarily reshapes my choice and, more important, in no time proves too small for them and forces me to change my arrangement. In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long. Like Nature, libraries abhor a vacuum, and the problem of space is inherent in the very nature of any collection of books.

Dear and most respected bookcase! I welcome your existence, which has for over one hundred years been devoted to the radiant ideals of goodness and justice.

You are a shelf of books without the pages.

I have a small room to write in. One wall is completely covered in books. And I face the window with the curtain closed to stop the light hitting the computer.

But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room - far better than paintings... That's not quite true!

Our house has a library - it seemed better use of the space than as a dining room! - and I try to spend as much time in there as possible. There's nothing better while reading or writing than to be surrounded by books.

I long ago ran out of bookshelf space and so, like a museum with its art, simply rotate my books from the boxes to the shelves and back again.

Though I have never thought of myself as a book collector, there are shelves in our house browsed so often, on so many rainy winter nights, that the contents have seeped into me as if by osmosis.

I have three storage units, and that's no lie. Three storage units. All books.

The thing with bookshelves, no matter how many you have, you always fill them.

My wife and I love to read. We're going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have our dogs.

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

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

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

When I was a boy, all the books I owned fit on a single shelf. Now I have several thousand stacked around the house.

For a while, gently bumping into my nightstand meant a pile of 50 books clattering onto my head and the floor. After the 10th time this happened, I moved most of the books to a shelf in the spare room. Now, my nightstand is sort of like a bookish country club. And not all books get in.

There's a room in my house where my stereo, records, CDs, and books are housed. I spend a lot of time in that room, sitting in my chair beside the fireplace, reading and listening to music. Sometimes I just stand before the shelves and look at my books, because every single one of them means something to me.

She surrounded herself with books at work and at home. Her living space was a testament to her first and abiding love with shelves jammed with books tables crowded with them. She saw them not only as knowledge entertainment comfort even sanity but as a kind of artful decoration.

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