The Book on the Bookshelf Quotes

“Yet the bookshelf is also conspicuous in its absence. When we enter a living room without books or bookshelves, we wonder if the people in the house do nothing but watch television.”
― Henry Petroski, The Book on the Bookshelf

“Yet the bookshelf us also conspicuous in its absence. When we enter a living room without books or bookshelves, we wonder if the people in the house do nothing but watch television.”
― Henry Petroski, The Book on the Bookshelf

“When I travel, I find myself drawn into bookstores and to books I wonder if I will ever see again.”
― Henry Petroski, The Book on the Bookshelf

“One acquaintance, a part-time farrier who carried his coals and irons in the back of a small pickup truck, had so many books that he had filled every single wall space in what must have once been a living room with shelves of the kind I would expect to find in a basement or garage. With the walls covered, he also located shelves in the middle of the room so that one had to wend one’s way through them as if in a garden maze. The house he and his wife lived in was modest, and they must have spent all their spare cash on books and the shelves on which to store them. Indeed, he appeared to have taken up horseshoeing to support his habit for books and the cases to hold them. I once asked him how he had come to practice his trade, and he informed me that he had read about it in a book.”
― Henry Petroski, The Book on the Bookshelf

“The bookshelf the floor on which books stand; it is the bed on which they sleep until a prince of a reader wakes them up or a talent scout promises to make them a star. Books open up their hearts, but bookshelves simply pine.”
― Henry Petroski, The Book on the Bookshelf