As a kid, I used to go to the library and take out all the art books. — Cheech Marin Copy Share Image
Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“The loudest elderly women always had the quietest elderly husbands.” — Scott Douglas Copy Share Image
I worked in restaurants, and I worked in the Cambridge Public Library. — H. Jon Benjamin Copy Share Image
“I picture heaven as a vast library, with unlimited volumes to read. And paintings and statues to examine” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I remember having read all the books in the library. I often tried to emulate my favourite… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, for a house full of books, and a garden of flowers. — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I find that when I come out of the library I'm in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
A real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the rooms of friends, with earnest frolic and… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Ordinary performers have giant TVs. Extraordinary performers have huge libraries. — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
A School Library is Like the Bat Cave: it's a safe fortress in a chaotic world, a source of knowledge and the… — Tom Angleberger Copy Share Image
Mr. Pewter led them through to a library, filled with thousands of antiquarian books. 'Impressive, eh?' 'Very,' said Jack. 'How did you… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
I was obsessed with George Orwell for years. I remember going to the town library and having to put in interlibrary loan… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
It was an incredible resource. I'd sit with a big stack of bound New Yorkers in the library and read through, especially… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always ready… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
For a whole year in elementary school, when the class marched down to the school library every week, I would refuse to… — Robin Sloan 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
“The library was quiet. It was busy but it was quiet and I thought it must be like this in a monastery… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I don't really have an office or anything, and I like to have to move location every two hours. So I just… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
“For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner, let it change into a serpent in his… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“Some books you never get over, like a first love. Some books that made an enormous impression on you when you were… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
“The library is a whispering post. You don't need to take a book off a shelf to know there is a voice… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Fact is Our Lord knew all about the power of money: He gave capitalism a tiny niche in His scheme of things,… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
“When I had no books and had to learn everything I needed off by heart, and when I had to hide what… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“What a great treasure can be hidden in a small, selected library! A company of the wisest and the most deserving people… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
What do you miss about being alive?" The sound of my mom singing, a little off-key. The way my dad went to… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“A first-rate college library with a comfortable campus around it is a fine milieu for a writer. There is, of course, the… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
