when the press and problems of humanity become too much, I love to escape into books, where people are served up in digestible portions and can be pushed to one side when one is satiated.
I am often asked a stock question: 'Have you actually read all those books?' To this I have my answer ready: 'Is there anybody who has read all the books in his library?' That would be like claiming t...
(pl. ) of Library
People loves Ideas I love books because Ideas can be found in books
The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experiences, the hopes and dreams and strivings of ALL human beings, and it is this passport that opens ou...
One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should be 'responsive to their patrons'.
I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I...
Wizards and computers get along about as well as flamethrowers and libraries.
Reading is important.
When life seems not worth living, ten minutes in a library proves otherwise.
The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned no later than the last date shown; and 3) Do not interfere with the nature of causality.
Fiction has two uses. Firstly, it’s a gateway drug to reading. The drive to know what happens next, to want to turn the page, the need to keep going, even if it’s hard, because someone’s in trouble an...
Most beautiful places where I found myself satisfied were libraries
I have never seen a peaceful environment better than libraries
My guess is (it will be) about 300 years until computers are as good as, say, your local reference library in search.
Libraries are sanctuaries from the world and command centers onto it: here in the quiet rooms are the lives of Crazy Horse and Aung San Suu Kyi, the Hundred Years' War and the Opium Wars and the Dirty...
An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.
Neil Gaiman on librarians as knowledge navigators over time.
It seems so easy now to destroy libraries--mainly by taking away all the books--and to say that books and libraries are not relevant to people's lives. There's a lot of talk about social breakdown and...
A book has been taken. A book has been taken? You summoned the Watch, Carrot drew himself up proudly, because someone's taken a ? You think that's worse than murder?The Librarian gave him the kind of...
When I was a student I spent a lot of time in the library. That's where the books and smart girls were.