“I mean I would rather be a librarian but I worry about the job security, books may be temporary dicks are forever.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
To all my librarian friends, champions of books, true magicians in the House of Life. Without you, this writer would be lost… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Do I have to talk to insane people?" "You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“Like a good American, I wanted to sue somebody. But like a good librarian, I just sat at my desk and waited.” — Rebecca Makkai Copy Share Image
In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
My father gave me free run of his library. When I think of my boyhood, I think in terms of the books… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail! — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“I would rather be a librarian, but I worry about the job security. Books may be temporary; dicks are forever.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a writer! But I wanted to do other things, too - be a psychologist, a librarian, et… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
The trick is to get people to read anything, to engender the love of reading. Once you can read, you can teach… — Jane Cleland Copy Share Image
Library Science is the key to all science, just as mathematics is its language - and civilization will rise or fall, depending… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“The Burgess sisters arrive together. Tara and Lainie do a little bit of everything. Sometimes dancers, sometimes actresses. Once they were librarians,… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
“. . . when a woman has a husband And you've got none, Why should she take advice from you? Even if… — Meredith Willson Copy Share Image
“The librarian, a tiny blonde twenty-something in a Riot grrrl T-shirt, looked up from her desk and smiled. Don’t let anyone tell… — Helen Callaghan Copy Share Image
Of course you don't believe in fairies. You're fifteen. You think I believed in fairies at fifteen? Took me until I was… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
He helped the Librarian up. There was a red glow in the ape's eyes. It had tried to steal his books. This… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“I found that I could not contemplate an adult life in which books were not dominant. I wanted to live and work… — Clifford Currie Librarian of the Ashmolean Library Oxford Copy Share Image
For years, we've been bludgeoned with the cliche "information is power." But information isn't power. After all, who's got the most information… — Clifford Stoll Copy Share Image
Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
In early days, I tried not to give librarians any trouble, which was where I made my primary mistake. Librarians like to… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
Every child's taste is different. Don't worry if they're not reading 'War and Peace' at age 12. First, build a good foundation… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Librarians open up the world. Knowledge is useless if you don't even know where to begin to look. How much more can… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
Most uncomfortable! Did we lose anyone? Head count! Lee Ark, Leetu, and Brunstetter. Three. Should we count the meech egg? No, I… — Donita K. Paul Copy Share Image
I just said, 'Well, the real people performing miracles every day are librarians,' and we all laughed ourselves off our chairs. — Nancy Pearl Copy Share Image
Mom worked as a school librarian, and she felt summers were for education. — Patricia A. Woertz Copy Share Image
Children's books are written for upbringing...but upbringing is a great thing; it decides the fate of the human being. — Vissarion Belinsky Copy Share Image
“I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be involved with what you have done.” — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Problem with being a librarian is there's some lessons you just can't learn from books.” — Jay Kristoff Copy Share Image
“Pulverized by literature,' thought Miss Laburnum. 'The ideal way for a librarian to die.” — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
If you want to be a reference librarian, you must learn to overcome not only your shyness but also the shyness of… — S. R. Ranganathan Copy Share Image
Information is the manager's main tool, indeed the manager's capital, and it is he who must decide what information he needs and… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not hoard the gift. She taught others how to find, where to look, how… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom. No libraries, no progress.” — Willard Scott Copy Share Image
I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education. — Lorraine Toussaint Copy Share Image
What I try to do - and I think this is the former librarian in me - is to get primary source… — Theresa Breslin Copy Share Image
“The librarian is the interface between reams of data and the untrained but motivated user.” — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Librarians are like crack dealers when it comes to hooking small children. — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
I never met a librarian worth his or her salt who didn't perceive my passion for books. — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
