The chief difference between big-game fishing and weightlifting is that weightlifters never clutter up their library walls with stuffed barbells — Ed Zern Copy Share Image
Would-be novelists need to bring equal parts arrogance and ignorance to the task before them. The arrogance is almost self-explanatory. Walk into… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
The venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's true that you might be socially isolated because you're reading in the library, at home and so on, but you're intensely… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
New York's such a wonderful city. Although I was at the library today. The guy was very rude. I said, "I'd like… — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
I could not write my books without the library's help. Even with the ease of Internet research, I find books to be… — Peg Kehret Copy Share Image
I will protect your tax money! It won't be spent on Prime Minister and Governor houses. InshALLAH the day PTI government comes… — Imran Khan Copy Share Image
To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
My mother brought us to the library every week, and I read a lot. That's what kept me company. I went from… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
Libraries are where most of us really fall in love with books, where we can browse and choose on our own. Its… — Kim Boykin Copy Share Image
Library of the Works of Ludwig von Mises”. Here is an article he wrote in 1951, some two years after his magnum… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts. — Walter Wager Copy Share Image
And the smell of the library was always the same - the musty odour of old clothes mixed with the keener scent… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“Like Petrach's, my books know infinitely more than I do, and I'm grateful that they even tolerate my presence. At times I… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
You don't go to the library and walk along and pick out a topic. You are riding the bus, or shopping at… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Some cleric putting a match to her. /Neither of them looks happy about it. /Once lit, she'll burn like a book, /like… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Yeats, you need ten years in the library, but I have need of ten years in the wilderness. — Lionel Johnson Copy Share Image
Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold,… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“Lord Peter's library was one of the most delightful bachelor rooms in London. Its scheme was black and primrose; its walls were… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“-It was my library, now it's yours. Only yours. I want to cry and I can stand it. I know how much… — Benito Taibo Copy Share Image
The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books… — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
