My first encounter with James was when I was seventeen. My brother brought home from the public library a science fiction anthology,… — Cynthia Ozick 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
Our radio plays rhythm and blues as we pass the joint back and forth in jutjawed silence both looking ahead with big… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
When I say God it is poetry and not theology. Nothing that any theologian has written about God has helped me much,… — John Haynes Holmes Copy Share Image
Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I won't be sad too often, If they bury me in the library With bookworms in my coffin. — J. Patrick Lewis Copy Share Image
We've conflated football games with patriotic zeal. I don't think attending a football game is any more patriotic than walking down the… — Oliver Luck Copy Share Image
Remain in wonder if you want the mysteries to open up for you. Mysteries never open up for those who go on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The latest gorgeous entry in the Belknap Press' growing library of annotated Jane Austen novels arrives, this time the mighty Emma under… — Steve Donoghue Copy Share Image
My parents are both intellectuals and readers; my mother would take me to the library every few days from before I was… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
This wasn't the way I had imagined my adventures, but reality ignored my wishes from the get-go, giving me a body best… — David Benioff Copy Share Image
I was so inspired by Dr. King that in 1956, with some of my brothers and sisters and first cousins - I… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
I read," I say. "I study and read. I bet I've read everything you read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries.… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries.” — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I had a terrible fear of not being normal - of not seeming normal. So I went to the library and read… — Woody Norris Copy Share Image
As parents, we should remember that our lives may be the book from the family library which the children most treasure. Are… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Call me a schoolmarm, but few things make me angrier than people not taking good care of library materials. — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want,… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
Books were not looked upon as things unobtainable due to economic circumstances or class status. My grandfather stole an entire set of… — Bob Hartley Copy Share Image
It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious completely unrelated… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
Oh, I collect facts and quotes when I can't write, and I can't write most of the time. I do a little… — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
