“Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism." [ Libraries on the Front Lines , ALA interview 2011]” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“All my life, the library has always been one of my favorite places to go. (Larry Brown: A Writer's Life by Jean… — Larry Brown Copy Share Image
Places of incredible glamour, possibility, power, excitement and pleasure. Love your libraries! — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey.” — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
If the library's rarest frequenters are the ones we'd like to see in them the most, then libraries are failing. — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
“But with each passing year, and each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether… — nick hornby Copy Share Image
Existing libraries, in their very being, seem to question the authority of those in power. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We… — Carl Stokes Copy Share Image
It should be said upfront that I totally dig people who work in bookstores and libraries. They love books, and I love… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
I think libraries give the feeling that people are there to work. It's a little bit like an artist's colony in the… — Stephen McCauley Copy Share Image
Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it… — Arthur Ashe Copy Share Image
I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
“The places of quiet are going away, the churches, the woods, the libraries. And it is only in silence we can hear… — James Rozoff Copy Share Image
Libraries shelter the spirit, provide food for the mind, and answer the questions raised by the problems of life. They have been… — Roberta Gellis Copy Share Image
“She took particular comfort in certain familiar sights and sounds that marked her day: the buzz of the fluorescent lights, the pale… — T.E.D. Klein Copy Share Image
“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
Sitting with a deck of cards in your hand all day is an obsession. Visiting print shops and bookstores and libraries is… — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
“Libraries, whether my own or shared with a greater reading public, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress. It is both the key and the quest that advances mankind. The search… — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
“No one stepping for the first time into a room made of books can know instinctively how to behave, what is expected,… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“The bookshop felt damp and chilly, but it was still and unsupervised bookshop, and Anna felt a frisson of excitement as she… — Lucy Dillon Copy Share Image
“Just as we may, through an appalled realization that we were unaware of what was going on in the mind of one… — Patrick Wilson Copy Share Image
Libraries are places that house our dreams, our fantasies, our thirst for adventure. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
What saved me from total academic failure and overwhelming ennui, was my love of libraries and all they encompass. — Hilary Farr Copy Share Image
...I spent many, many hours in...libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. — Arthur Ashe Copy Share Image
“She was a poetry book with the wrong dust jacket, shelved in the Reference section.” — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
“anyone who’s worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“There wasn't a place I could think of that was more magical than a building bursting with books and stories and words...” — Lindsay Eland Copy Share Image
She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people. — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“My guess is (it will be) about 300 years until computers are as good as, say, your local reference library in search.” — Google.com Craig Silverstein (Director of Technology Copy Share Image
“The most important thing of all was not the poverty of its essence, but that it was there .” — David Drake Copy Share Image
“If you want to damage a culture - attack it's libraries. Libraries can be as strong as a tree, but they're as… — Stephen Abrams Copy Share Image
I've been talking about the centrality of libraries in our information society for a while now. — Matthew Lesko Copy Share Image
Libraries are the center of our lives. There's no use going to a university if you don't live at the library. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“She might ban me from the library." "The marvelous thing about libraries is that their contents can be easily moved.” — Alissa Johnson Copy Share Image
“The library is the worst group of people ever assembled in history. They're mean, conniving, rude, and extremely well-read, which makes them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Her library is a meeting place for all who love books. They discuss matters of the world and matters of the spirit.” — Jeanette Winter Copy Share Image
You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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