Built of Books Quotes

“When Wilde composed his works he surrounded himself with books. A friend remembered him writing a poem ‘with a botanical work in front of him from which he . . . [selected] the names of flowers most pleasing to the ear to plant in his garden of verse’.5 Aubrey Beardsley’s caricature of Wilde, ‘Oscar Wilde at Work’, shows the author at his desk surrounded by mountains of books.”
― Thomas Wright, Built of Books: How Reading Defined the Life of Oscar Wilde

“If he could not read all the volumes he wanted, he could at least ‘hold books in his hand’.”
― Thomas Wright, Oscar's Books: A Journey Around the Library of Oscar Wilde