Librarians Quotes

To all librarians everywhere, God bless you.

— David Morrell

“YA doesn't get librarians fired!”

— Cory Doctorow

Librarians are awesome; I don't care who knows it.

— Ryan North

“Rule number one: Don't fuck with librarians.”

— Neil Gaiman

God bless the Reference Librarians

— James Lee Burke

“Pimps make the best librarians.”

— Avi Steinberg

Of course it's all right for librarians to smell of drink.

— Barbara Pym

Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.

— Peter Shaffer

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

— Jarrett J. Krosoczka

“Librarians are the bedrock of the public domain and the defenders of our fundamental right to access knowledge.”

— Carl Malamud

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

— Joan Bauer

“The loudest elderly women always had the quietest elderly husbands.”

— Scott Douglas

“Creating a world within the imagination one day at a time through words and colors.”

— Peggy A. Borel

'Librarians' is surprisingly touching in a lot of ways where it's not expected.

— Dean Devlin

Once they were librarians, but that is a subject they will only discuss if heavily intoxicated.

— Erin Morgenstern

The hoes is librarians, they lookin me up. She got a Jones like Marion, she lickin me up.

— J Cole

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

— Robert A. Heinlein

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

— Jane Cleland

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

— Peter Morville

Glam culture is ultimately rooted in obsession, and those of us who are truly devoted and loyal to the lifestyle of glamour…

— Lady Gaga

Back before the internet we had a name for people who bought a single copy of our books and lent them to…

— Charles Stross

“Some believe that every library looks like a splendid cemetery of human thoughts and ideas. Could librarians be called grave-diggers? However that…

— Lara Biyuts

Good librarians are natural intelligence operatives. They possess all of the skills and characteristics required for that work: curiosity, wide-ranging knowledge, good…

— Marilyn Johnson

Teachers and librarians are some of my favorite people, especially since I was a teacher myself. I love talking to them because…

— Rick Riordan

“Personally, I felt pretty safe. Librarians are like priests. You can tell them you want information on just about any subject and…

— Eileen Cook

“I work [at a library] because I love books, because I'm inveterately curious, and because, like most librarians, I'm not well suited…

— Josh Hanagarne

“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

“Librarians who are arguing and lobbying for clever e-book lending solutions are completely missing the point. They are defending the library-as-warehouse concept,…

— Seth Godin

I have always thought that librarians are a little bit like doctors, travel agents and professors all rolled into one. We all…

— Dorothea Benton Frank

“Librarians, to Melanie, were somewhat in a par with god -- who else could be bothered with, and better yet, know the…

— Jodi Picoult

“No duelling. No summoning of imps or other manifestations of elements potentially damaging to the records, including but not limited to: elementals,…

— Justina Robson

“Many of my friends think I read books all day and alphabetize the shelves. Well, sometimes I do alphabetize shelves. But more…

— Jack Canfield Carrie O'Maley

“Mr. O'Donnell was at the library counter, performing the sort of grim rituals librarians perform with index cards and stumpy pencils and…

— Hilary Thayer Hamann

“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

In tight economic times, with libraries sliding farther and farther down the list of priorities, we risk the loss of their ideals,…

— Marilyn Johnson

“Librarians are trained to be polite, patient, and helpful, no matter who stands across the reference desk.The most important thing is that…

— Robert Dawson

“I believed that books might save him because I knew they had so far, and because I knew the people books had…

— Rebecca Makkai

“And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Someone has said of books that they are our 'amplest heritages' of thought, and so they are. That doesn't necessarily mean that…

— Mary Virginia Provines

“Librarians wield unfathomable power. With a flip of the wrist they can hide your dissertation behind piles of old Field and Stream…

— Erica Olsen