David Grann Quotes

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.

Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof.

I am unpacking my library. Yes I am. The books are not yet on the shelves, not yet touched by the mild boredom of order.

To start with, look at all the books.

His eyes gravitated towards the wall-to-wall bookshelf at one end of the room. 'You folks like books, I see.

No furniture is so charming as books.

I can't throw books away. My wife is always telling me to get rid of some.

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.

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

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.

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.

I personally own six or seven thousand books, so I - and I certainly don't want to see them go away.

I regret all of my books.

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

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

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

Indeed, every book on my shelves is a key to a little vault of memories.

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.

Print books have an amazing superpower because they don't disappear when you're done with them. Books on the shelf remind you that they exist.

I have about 3,500 books, maybe more.

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.

But what struck me was the book-madness of the place--books lay scattered across the unmade bed and the top of a battered-looking desk, books stood in knee-high piles on the floor, books were crammed sideways and right side up in a narrow bookcase that rose higher than my head and leaned dangerously from the wall, books sat in stacks on top of a dingy dresser. The closet door was propped open by a pile of books, and from beneath the bed a book stuck out beside the toe of a maroon slipper.

The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library.

Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves.