Librarian Quotes

“God is a librarian”

— Sarah Smith

God bless the Reference Librarians

— James Lee Burke

“I’m a librarian,” he said.”

— Laini Taylor

I was a librarian in a city school.

— Luke Harper

I wanted to be a librarian.

— Amy Klobuchar

Libraries are our friends.

— Neil Gaiman

Libraries are where it all begins.

— Rita Dove

I'm a librarian, not an oracle.

— Libba Bray

“She's right, of course. My mother usually is. She's a librarian.”

— Heather Vogel Frederick

“My boyfriend thinks I lost my true calling to become a librarian.”

— Paulina Porizkova

To all librarians everywhere, God bless you.

— David Morrell

The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.

— Alberto Manguel

Goat curry and a female librarian, that's what I'm in the mood for.

— Ben Katchor

Librarians understand about power - they know how to find anything.

— Joan Bauer

A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.

— Shelby Foote

“This is why it’s perilous to ignore a librarian.”

— Jeffe Kennedy

Librarians are teaching the next generation how to use digital media responsibly.

— Jarrett J. Krosoczka

My mom was a librarian, so I spent most of my childhood in libraries, learning to love their potential for imagination and…

— Amelia Dimoldenberg

But you want murderous feelings? Hang around librarians," confided Gamache. "All that silence. Gives them ideas.

— Louise Penny

Any librarian or scholar will tell you: Close is not the same as accurate.

— Libba Bray

Lady Queen," he said, "You've given me all I want. You're the queen a librarian dreams of.

— Kristin Cashore

“A lot of help she was. Weren't witches supposed to have power? If you asked me Noel seemed more like a glorified…

— Tara A. Fuller

So, there I was, tied to an altar made from outdated encyclopedias, about to get sacrificed to the dark powers by a…

— Brandon Sanderson

“These were wise, modern children, and they knew: a mother could be a witch, a child could be a criminal. A librarian…

— Rebecca Makkai

“The Burgess sisters arrive together. Tara and Lainie do a little bit of everything. Sometimes dancers, sometimes actresses. Once they were librarians,…

— Erin Morgenstern

Library Science is the key to all science, just as mathematics is its language - and civilization will rise or fall, depending…

— Robert A. Heinlein

“. . . when a woman has a husband And you've got none, Why should she take advice from you? Even if…

— Meredith Willson

The trick is to get people to read anything, to engender the love of reading. Once you can read, you can teach…

— Jane Cleland

I always wanted to be a writer! But I wanted to do other things, too - be a psychologist, a librarian, et…

— Helen Oyeyemi

She either confused me with a much older child or else she glimpsed deep inside my soul and perceived a hole that…

— Kate Morton

Note that the #1 Top Reviewer at Amazon (4550 book reviews) is Harriet Klausner, formerly an acquisitions librarian in Pennsylvania. This just…

— Peter Morville

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

I was on television a couple of years ago and the reporter asked me, "How does it feel being on mainstream media?…

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Of course, like all the informal inhabitants of the University the roaches were a little unusual, but there was something particularly unpleasant…

— Terry Pratchett

“Why did you take this job?” I ask. “It doesn’t make sense. You’re so young—” “It was an honor to be promoted,”…

— Victoria Schwab

“I finally found my way to the Really Restricted Section, where they keep the kind of books most scholars aren't even supposed…

— Simon R. Green

“And, hey. You. Thanks for being the kind of person who likes to pick up a book. That's a genuinely great thing.…

— Max Barry

Book burning is a charming old custom, hallowed by antiquity. It has been practiced for centuries by fascists, communists, atheists, school children,…

— Richard Armour

“ "Baby, you gave that to someone else, it wouldn't be mine. Now it's mine. No one can ever have it. It'll…

— Kristen Ashley

You can't argue with someone who believes, or just passionately suspects, that the poet's function is not to write what he must…

— Anonymous