Anyone who’s worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.
We'll always need printed books that don't mutate the way digital books do; we'll always need places to display books, auditoriums for book talks, circles for story time; we'll always need brick-and-m...
(pl. ) of Library
Libraries have always been there for me. Of course I'll stand up for them.
The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in his own existence.
There are no such things as book hoarders, only aspiring librarians
What is more important to a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it exists.
To love books mean to love Libraries, to love libraries mean to love knowledge and to love knowledge mean to love creator.
The library is the worst group of people ever assembled in history. They're mean, conniving, rude, and extremely well-read, which makes them dangerous.
When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.
I feel that the care of libraries and the use of books, and the knowledge of books, is a tremendously vital thing, and that we who deal with books and who love books have a great opportunity to bring...
There's a term you don't hear these days, one you used to hear all the time when the Carnegie branches opened: Palaces for the People. The library really is a palace. It bestows nobility on people who...
The library in summer is the most wonderful thing because there you get books on any subject and read them each for only as long as they hold your interest, abandoning any that don't, halfway or a qua...
Morris tried to keep the books in some sort of order, but they always mixed themselves up. The tragedies needed cheering up and would visit with the comedies. The encyclopedias, weary of facts, would...
Miró hacia la biblioteca. Aquella sabiduría no calmaría nunca su fuego; siglos y siglos de palabras no podían satisfacer aquel deseo imperativo e irracional.
I liked the thought that the book I was now holding had been held by dozens of others.
I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadow...
I find that when I come out of the library I’m in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken away from the distractions of life.
We have an obligation to support libraries. To use libraries, to encourage others to use libraries, to protest the closure of libraries. If you do not value libraries then you do not value information...
My Alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.
Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madams, greeting punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and pimping their books.