Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Filmmaking has been my love since my mother brought me to see James Whale's 'Frankenstein' at the local library at the age… — Sean Baker Copy Share Image
The library is…a university of the people, from which the students are never graduated. — Katharine Sharp Copy Share Image
...and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Browsing through the shelves in bookstores or libraries, I was completely happy.” — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“To know your way round a library is to master the whole of culture, i.e. the whole world.” — Sophie Divry Copy Share Image
As a child, a library card takes you to exotic, faraway places. When you're grown up, a credit card does it. — Sam Ewing Copy Share Image
Librarians lend people books from the library. The best librarians are children's book librarians. — Richard Scarry Copy Share Image
I've read Reverend Kirk, in fact. My uncle's library has quite a few books of your people. I have read Mr. Lang's… — Melissa Marr Copy Share Image
“I don't understand this irony - valuable things like cars, gold, diamond are made up of hard materials but most valuable things… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I came to poetry at fourteen, in the middle of a booming oil-rush town in southern Arabia without a single public library:… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
I remember that I stood on the library steps holding my books and looking for a minute at the soft hinted green… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
“A library is a different kind of social reality (of the three dimensional kind), which by its very existence teaches a system… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
As music migrates into our iPods, CD collections require less and less room, residing in our heads rather than resounding off the… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
I remember, in school during English lessons, I would ask the teacher what were the most difficult books to read, and when… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
Someday it will dawn on man that woman does not read the wonderful books with which he has filled his libraries, and… — Esther Vilar Copy Share Image
Now, many public libraries want to lend e-books, not simply to patrons who come in to download, but to anybody with a… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It has always been my experience that, whatever groupings I choose for my books, the space in which I plan to lodge… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
It seems reasonable to envision, for a time 10 or 15 years hence, a "thinking center" that will incorporate the functions of… — J. C. R. Licklider Copy Share Image
My other hobby, because I just love any job with a gavel, is auctioneer. And I so often have presided over charity… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I shall be so glad if you will tell me what to read. I have been looking into all the books in… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A library is many things. It's a place to go, to get in out of the rain. It's a place to go… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
“Anyone who loves books the way Homer does, loves libraries, too. It doesn't matter if the library has fancy red leather chairs… — Suzanne Selfors Copy Share Image
“The loudest elderly women always had the quietest elderly husbands.” — Scott Douglas Copy Share Image
Knowledge was inherent in all things. The world was a library. — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
“I wish that death had spared me until your library had been complete.” — Lorenzo de' Medici Copy Share Image
As a kid, I used to go to the library and take out all the art books. — Cheech Marin Copy Share Image
