“I stayed in the library, crushed breathless by the smoldering power of all those words – many of them unfathomable – until… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
To this day I have no idea what dissident professor or librarian placed feminist texts on the bookshelves at the university library… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
In the past, a great library was the result of librarians functioning as guardians of culture, tending and caring, selecting and recommending… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
I can think of few more worthy achievements than keeping a library alive and well for a century. As far as I… — Gillian Roberts Copy Share Image
The chief difference between big-game fishing and weightlifting is that weightlifters never clutter up their library walls with stuffed barbells — Ed Zern Copy Share Image
“Celia Bowen sits at a desk surrounded by piles of books. She ran out of space for her library some time ago,… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Making love to Aurelia was like rummaging through a card catalog in a deserted library, searching for one very obscure, little-read entry… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
An indigenous culture with sufficient territory, and bilingual and intercultural education, is in a better position to maintain and cultivate its mythology… — Jeremy Narby Copy Share Image
Money alone is only a mean; it presupposes a man to use it. The rich man can go where he pleases, but… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I had a mother who walked to the library with me, and you can't walk to a lot of libraries in San… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“The library at Pemberley was as freely open to her as it was to Darcy, and with his tactful and loving encouragement… — P.D. James Copy Share Image
As soon as I got into the library I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. I got a whiff of… — Christopher Paul Curtis Copy Share Image
The Library is an open sanctuary. It is devoted to individual intellectual inquiry and contemplation. Its function is to provide free access… — Robert G. Vosper Copy Share Image
In the pre-Internet age you had to find gay things - or things that were slightly radioactive with erotic interest. You had… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
The only thing that I discovered very early on is that, even though we might change schools and cities and towns and… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
I grew up in a household without a TV. We lived next door to a library for a while, and at one… — Victoria Hanley Copy Share Image
Usage tends to be global, while funding tends tobe local. When we allow it to happen, usage of a digital library is… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
I mean, for all of his faults and the troubles in his marriage, Bill Clinton is still married to a girl he… — Paul Begala Copy Share Image
Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I moved to New York City in '92 and had no money. I had a lot of free time, as actors do.… — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
“The Los Angeles Public Library provides free and easy access to information, ideas, books and technology that enrich, educate and empower every… — Los Angeles Public Library Mission Statement Copy Share Image
I was a bookworm. Every week I'd go to the library and get seven books. Remember libraries? I wonder if people still… — Colin Mochrie Copy Share Image
I started Save the Libraries in 2010 by hosting a big fundraiser in my city library of DeKalb County in Atlanta. Through… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I could not do what I do without the kindness, consideration, resourcefulness and work of librarians, particularly in public libraries... What started… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
If you're rich, you can leave a library, a building, or a hospital wing. But writing leaves behind a visceral sense of… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
If the Library of Alexandria was the emblem of our ambition of omniscience, the Web is the emblem of our ambition of… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
When we got around to books, I was finally set, as our minister would say, on solid ground. I gorged on books.… — Lorene Cary Copy Share Image
The library was one more essential in the parade of rooms in a big 18th-century house - and part of the required… — Peter York Copy Share Image
As president of the American Historical Association, I started a programme to make dissertations into e-books in 1999. Before I knew it,… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
The reality is, if you go to the library and read biographies, thousands of people have changed, radically changed. St. Augustine was… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
One, I have a wonderful publisher, Black Sparrow Press; as long as they exist, they will keep me in print. And they… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
“But we're a university! We have to have a library!" said Ridcully. "It adds tone . What sort of people would we… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Sometimes the best reading comes just by accident. Someone talks about a book, or you're just wandering the stacks in the library,… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I came across 'The Song of Achilles' by Madeline Miller in one of the most romantic ways one can find a story.… — Taylor Jenkins Reid Copy Share Image
My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read, and have since often regretted that,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Basically I was a rebel growing up. I got kicked out of six schools. But I don't think that it makes you… — Michelle Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I'm old enough, by a long shot, to remember going to the library and spending days researching. If I was looking for… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
When I was asked to play 'Miss Marple,' I was given the Kevin Elyot script for 'The Body in the Library.' I… — Geraldine McEwan Copy Share Image
“While it is true that outside the library I have lived a life of wickedness, inside it I've always been as devoted… — Andrew Davidson Copy Share Image
