In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are its banks. — Wendell H. Ford Copy Share Image
“There’s something deep in the heart of every person that wants to protect culture. The only thing about my pending career that… — Scott Douglas Copy Share Image
One of the things we learned from that panel is the way poor communities use a library is very different from wealthy… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
One cannot celebrate books sufficiently. After saying his best, still something better remains to be spoken in their praise. As with friends,… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
“In college I retreated to the library. I have always loved libraries - the quiet, the smell, the expectation of imminent discovery.… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land as the sower sows his wheatfield. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
When we got around to books, I was finally set, as our minister would say, on solid ground. I gorged on books.… — Lorene Cary Copy Share Image
“In College average and numbers means everything to a guy.” — Slicktor Victor Robinson Copy Share Image
As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there in a book, you may have… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
It had that comfortably sprung, lived-in look that library books with a lively circulation always get; bent page corners, a dab of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“I like that library books have secret lives. All those hands that have held them. All those eyes that have read them.” — Neela Vaswani Copy Share Image
Any man who would walk five miles through the snow, barefoot, just to return a library book so he could save three… — Jack Benny Copy Share Image
Corliss had never once considered the fate of library books. She'd never wondered how many books go unread. She loved books. How… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Library books were, I suddenly realized, promiscuous, ready to lie down in the arms of anyone who asked. Not like bookstore books,… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
The librarian spoke in a reverential whisper. Corliss knew she'd misjudged this passionate woman. Maybe she dressed poorly, but she was probably… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Reading is the noblest of all the hobbies, that is why people mention it so frequently in their resume even if they… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
