Fiona Dourif

I have a different relationship with Chucky because he's been on top of my bookshelf in the corner of my living room for my entire life. He was a great tool for scaring friends, and when I see him in different theme parks I've been to, or in commercials, my heart swells a little bit, and I'm like, 'Aww! It's my Chucky!

American Actress

Joyce Carol Oates

People have libraries at home, they have bookshelves, they have CDs. And they sort of try, people try to bring great artists into their lives, into their physical houses and sort of live with portions of them. But they're not really deeply engaging with them.

American Novelist

Matthew Tobin Anderson

The bedroom in my apartment is far too small to hold a nightstand. There is, however, this bookshelf. Yes, I stow whatever I'm reading on the lower shelf, but more importantly, it's where I keep a collection of ghost books.

American Author

Jane Clayson

There is more to life than a job. I didn't ever want to look back and point to a bookshelf of videotapes and say, 'That's been my life.' It's so much easier to write a resume than it is to craft a spirit.

American Journalist

Ellen Potter

I've reread 'The Secret Garden' every year as an adult. I have a battered copy on my bookshelf - it's really quite a mess! The experience of reading the novel keeps deepening for me.

Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall

Sadly, there are many children who have not yet been given the chance to 'discover the magic of reading, or set foot in the worlds you can discover on bookshelves.

British Royalty

Theodore Bikel

Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route.

Austrian Actor

Neil Gaiman

When I was 7, my proudest possession would have been my bookshelf 'cause I had alphabetized all of the books on my bookshelf.

British Author

Anthony J. D'Angelo

The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet.

American Writer

Uzodinma Iweala

Talking Peace' is one of the few books from childhood that I still keep prominently displayed on my bookshelf.

Identify bookshelf as an item of furniture designed specifically for books.

Furniture piece

Bookshelves come in tiers, with each row of shelves called a shelf or tier.

Shelf arrangement

Bookshelves can be made of different materials like wood, metal, or plastic.

Material variations

 sort of know that's kind of weird guys I bought it and then it sat on my bookshelf for months and I got on a plane was getting on a plane I wasn't agreed I just grabbed it read it on the plane when I landed I said I'm going to do that so I went to and weeks I guess I I but I know then there was no internet or anything to find out

On the Road With Andrew...

 But I suspected there was something really important about this whole feminism thing, so I started covertly tiptoeing into my mom's bookshelves and picking books off and reading them -- never, of course, admitting that I was doing so. I didn't actually claim the feminist label

Courtney Martin:...

 picture of it but it looks like the bottom half of a woman uh and it's it's very it's very unique to the seychelles and so they gave me one that sits on my bookshelf these days it may seem like the world is shrunk google earth lets us look at any spot on the globe in seconds

Where in the World is...

 And as you know, real languages are messy. That's because they change, and change has a way of working against order, just like in a living room or on a bookshelf. Real languages are never perfectly logical. That's why Tolkien made sure that Elvish had plenty of exceptions.

Are Elvish, Klingon,...

 not mutually exclusive but on the bookshelves of my university I discovered feminist Muslim women scholars who nurtured my feminism I had vowed never to read anything by Muslim men again so there were all these Muslim women helping me know that I'm not the

I am here to confuse you...

 believable, comprehensible, and worth exploring. In real life, the Law of Gravity holds seven book sets of "Harry Potter" to millions of bookshelves around the world. We know this to be true, but we also know that ever since J.K. typed the words

How to build a fictional...

 buy and we scale things up around it but for this particular one we fabricated just about everything in the scene a flatbed scan all the books and my bookshelves same with my CDs on the internet I was able to find all of like

See an Apocalyptic World...

 learn my favorite school topics and to decorate my bookshelf all these things may appear small but every inspiration from around me encourages me to do something creative and feel very happy

A message from the next...

 at those bookshelves. I'm not really sure how to create new norms for this world, but I do think that in our desperate quest to create happy kids,

Jennifer Senior: For...

 It's often said that you can tell a lot about a person by looking at what's on their bookshelves. What do my bookshelves say about me?

Bookshelf