Library Quotes · Page 4

Book - what they make a movie out of for television.

— Anonymous

“...the air a library and the record of every life lived, every sentence spoken, every word transmitted still reverberating within it.”

— Anthony Doerr

The whole thing that Dante [Alighieri] did was summed up in the medieval world. It's like St. Thomas Aquinas, the Summa Theologica.…

— Paul Laffoley

The shelves of books we haven't written, like those of books we haven't read, stretches out into the darkness of the universal…

— Alberto Manguel

“Two by two, I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle.…

— Eudora Welty

The library in summer is the most wonderful thing because there you get books on any subject and read them each for…

— Polly Horvath

“How can you be nervous? Don't you see? We're in a library.”

— Eilis O'Neal

I love rare books. Not that I own a lot of them, mind you. You couldn't quite call me a rare-book collector.…

— Lev Grossman

My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the…

— Hamish Bowles

Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.

— Louisa May Alcott

“Yes, we know you are a graduate with PhD. But when was the last time you chase after a book shop to…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Everyone spoke of an information overload, but what there was in fact was a non-information overload.

— Richard Saul Wurman

A book may lie dormant for fifty years or for two thousand years in a forgotten corner of a library, only to…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

I got kicked out in grade school because I staged a riot because I wanted more library time.

— Bitsie Tulloch

I read a lot. I always have, but in those two years I gorged myself on books with a voluptuous, almost erotic…

— Tana French

There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

Librarians lend people books from the library. The best librarians are children's book librarians.

— Richard Scarry

I think many poets, including myself, write both for the voice and for the page. I certainly write for the person alone…

— Adrienne Rich

“sometimes, what i see is a library in a rural community. all the tall shelves in the big open room. and the…

— Tracy K. Smith

There is no problem a library card can't solve.

— Eleanor Brown

Every old man that dies is a library that burns.

— Amadou Hampate Ba

“I shall be glad to have the library to myself as soon as may be.”

— Jane Austen

Children's books are written for upbringing...but upbringing is a great thing; it decides the fate of the human being.

— Vissarion Belinsky

I always get lost in the library,' he said, 'no matter how many times I go. In fact, I think I get…

— Rainbow Rowell

“So you go in a library, and you pull a book off the shelf, and you open it, and what are you…

— Ray Bradbury