“When nightfall weaves its way through the New York Public Library, it is nothing shy of magic. Long stretched of sunlight on… — Kristin O'Donnell Tubb Copy Share Image
“The public library contains multitudes. And each person who visits contains multitudes as well. Each of us is a library of thoughts,… — Josh Hanagarne Copy Share Image
We're competing with everything: the beach, the mall, bookstores. Libraries are in a transition right now, caught between two forces, the old… — John Callahan Copy Share Image
My family supported me. I wasn't hot-housed at all as a young child; I didn't go to any kind of gifted school.… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
As for reading, I wish I had a magic door to a library where I could go in, read for days and… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“In his library he had been always sure of leisure and tranquility; and though prepared, as he told Elizabeth, to meet with… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I started with a book, and that led me to a library, and that led me everywhere.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Browsing through the shelves in bookstores or libraries, I was completely happy.” — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“Books on the bookshelves And stacked on the floor Books kept in baskets And propped by the door Books in neat piles… — L.R. Knost Copy Share Image
“A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and… — E.B. White Copy Share Image
“I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable… — Franklin Delano Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Full federal funding for presidential libraries should bring with it new rules of control over papers and artifacts. — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
“Now, when I read constantly about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
In 1986 we were trying to help women get in print, stay in print, and come to the attention of booksellers and… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
“...it's appalling to remember that the entire Oxford University Library was sold for scrap in the mid-1500s. Nor was that situation unique… — Owen Gingerich Copy Share Image
“Many existing top 20 Scottish writers have flourished in part because of good turns done by institutions, arts community, libraries and bookshops.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Welcome young poet, in here you are free to follow your star to where you should be. That door of the library… — Bernard Kops Copy Share Image
I talk to a lot of librarians, and there's always a steady drumbeat of how libraries are places of community. But a… — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
“For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner, Let it change into a serpent in his… — Nicholas A. Basbanes Copy Share Image
“Pick a leader who will not only bail out banks and airlines, but also families from losing their homes -- or jobs… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“On to the library. And all through his time at the card catalog, combing the shelves, filling out the request cards, he… — Stephen Minkin Copy Share Image
“If I had my druthers, I would be buried in a library or inside a coffin that resembled one--that's how I feel… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
“Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
