As movers and the moved both know, books are heavy freight, the weight of refrigerators and sofas broken up into cardboard boxes. They make us think twice about changing addresses.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think if a book has the power to move a reader, it also has the power to offend a reader. And you want your books to have power, so you just have to take what comes with that.
I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved me.
Books do furnish a room.
I have three storage units, and that's no lie. Three storage units. All books.
I thought I'd go to a bookstore and see what moved me.
I have two quite large houses, and every cupboard and drawer is stuffed with books.
Books arrive in my head all at once, and then it becomes an 18-month process of getting it all down on paper.
I saw a stationery store move.
I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.
I think my mother was like a small company which, because things are not ship-shape, keeps two sets of books, one for the auditors and then there's the other one.
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