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In my library/study/barn, there is a Ping-Pong table on which I can pile working books and spread maps.

— Antony Beevor

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where I am.

— Tamora Pierce

I normally keep a series of draft in a catalogue type of book in which I scribble, sketch and draw ideas.

— Jonathan Shapiro

The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.

— Aaron Swartz

Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to reading.

— Bill Gates

I'm always working on a few different stories at once, so there's always some really big coffee table book I'm carrying around.

— Mo Rocca

I have this book club, and we don't read one book; we offer up a few suggestions and create a library over time.

— Claire Danes

At school, if I was ever bored in class, I would draw maps of islands or detailed interior of boats or lists of provisions and equipment I would need when I went camping in the summer.

— Michelle Magorian

My whole thing is, I collect what I know I want to read, and I have certain bookshelves in my bedroom that contain all the books I haven't read yet.

— June Squibb

✗Opposing Perspectives

It's going to be labor-intensive and time-consuming, but you need to take all the books down and put them on the floor. Take them down and spread them in one area. Physically pick each book up, one by one. If the book inspires you, keep it. If not, it goes out. That's the standard by which you decide.

— Marie Kondo

Today, if you want to access a typical out-of-print book, you have only one choice - fly to one of a handful of leading libraries in the country and hope to find it in the stacks.

— Sergey Brin