Nora Roberts Quotes

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.

Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate!

Home is where your books are.

I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.

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

Books, for me, are a home. Books don’t make a home – they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and a different kind of space.

I wanted to live among books.

I love an author the more for having been himself a lover of books.

To a bibliophile, there is but one thing better than a box of new books, and that is a box of old ones.

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

Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books.

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.

It didn’t matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.

But I hope I will never have a life that is not surrounded by books, by books that are bound in paper and cloth and glue, such perishable things for ideas have lasted thousands of years . . . I hope I am always walled in by the very weight and breadth and clumsy, inefficient, antiquated bulk of them, hope that I spend my last days on this Earth arranging and rearranging them on thrones of good, honest pine, oak, and mahogany, because I just like to look at their covers, and dream of the promise of the great stories inside.

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

We live for books.

If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas.

If I'm alone at home, I get increasingly restless, bothered by the idea that I'm missing some crucial encounter out there somewhere. But if I'm left by myself in someone else's place, I often find myself a nice sense of peace engulfing me. I love sinking into an unfamiliar sofa with whatever book happens to be lying nearby.

It felt good to be surrounded by books, by all this solid knowledge, by these objects that could be ripped page by page but couldn't be torn if the pages all held together.

In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.

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

She would bring you some great book because she was a book matchmaker, because she loved books the way other girls loved clothes.

Books are still the main yardstick by which I measure true wealth.

I would prefer to have one comfortable room well stocked with books to all you could give me in the way of decoration which the highest art could supply.