Peter York Quotes

Take a look at the books other people have in their homes.

Those wealthy people purchase books to put on their book shelves for display rather than for reading.

They will be given as gifts; books that are especially pretty or visual will be bought as hard copies; books that are collectible will continue to be collected; people with lots of bookshelves will keep stocking them; and anyone who likes to make notes in books will keep buying books with margins to fill.

I collect books - a lot of books.

Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books.

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

I've never been a collector - just a consumer - and these days unless a book is signed to me by another author, I don't normally have any qualms about passing it to a friend or donating it to the library.

I still buy actual books. The smell, having it in your hands - there's really no substitute.

We had library books in our house, but not our own. So you had 14 days to read them. There would be eight books a fortnight in our house and I'd read as many of those as I could.

I don't know why - I have a ton of books: five full cabinets of them.

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

Every so often I take out a volume and read a page or two. After all, reading is looking after in a manner of speaking. Though they're not old enough to be valuable for their age alone, nor important enough to be sought after by collectors, my charges are dear to me, even if, as often as not, they are as dull on the inside as on the outside. No matter how banal the contents, there is always something that touches me. For someone now dead once thought these words significant enough to write them down.

Some are born to invent, others to embellish; but the gilder attracts more attention than the architect.

I was lucky enough to have a mother who took me to the library - the public library - twice a week, Wednesdays and Saturdays. And also bought me books. And also read aloud to me.

I've just started to get really envious when I go into people's houses and see books on a shelf.

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

We've always read to the kids, every night both kids get books. That's really important, and they love books. Our daughter is obsessed with reading and books, so it's really sweet. She has her own little personal library.

I love books. I want to read them, and I want to own them so they're always available to be reread.

One of the best things to do with tablescapes in my experience, is really curating them with things that you've collected.

I have about 3,500 books, maybe more.

A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.

If you ever go home with somebody and they don't have books in their house, don't sleep with them. I think that's very important.

I wanted to live among books.

I'm focusing on the music, but I still got a cold library of books that I've either read or I plan on getting to.

It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless nerd.