As for reading, I wish I had a magic door to a library where I could go in, read for days and… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Nick chided a censor, who wished some books gone, and suggested she scan Fahrenheit 451. For the book-budget cutters, Old Claus had… — David Davis Copy Share Image
What I have learned about museum buildings is that buildings have to have iconic presentations. The position of the art museum vis-a-vis… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
“Libraries have ludicrously large “limits” on items you can check out (the Denver Public Libraries, for instance, let you check out 100… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The opportunity before all of us is living up to the dream of the Library of Alexandria and then taking it a… — Brewster Kahle Copy Share Image
I always get lost in the library,' he said, 'no matter how many times I go. In fact, I think I get… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I have always kept a stack of library books next to my bed as a lifeline. If I ever woke in the… — Julie Halpern Copy Share Image
“No one stepping for the first time into a room made of books can know instinctively how to behave, what is expected,… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
The gloomy recess of an ecclesiastical library is like a harbor, into which a far-traveling curiosity has sailed with its freight, and… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
“The library turned out to be a very pleasant place, but it was not the comfortable chairs, the huge wooden bookshelves, or… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“Those who spend the greater part of their time in reading or writing books are, of course, apt to take rather particular… — M.R. James Copy Share Image
Record stores are the hippest libraries. In these tired ole days of homogenized entertainment, where so much of the art of our… — Elizabeth Cook Copy Share Image
I think the one advantage to a failed - recovering, but a pretty broken - economy, and a lot of broken promises,… — Alexis Ohanian Copy Share Image
I think that it's not enough to do the little Band-Aid things of having celebrities come and read to children. Not that… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house - in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read, and have since often regretted that,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Basically I was a rebel growing up. I got kicked out of six schools. But I don't think that it makes you… — Michelle Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“While it is true that outside the library I have lived a life of wickedness, inside it I've always been as devoted… — Andrew Davidson Copy Share Image
When I was asked to play 'Miss Marple,' I was given the Kevin Elyot script for 'The Body in the Library.' I… — Geraldine McEwan Copy Share Image
I'm old enough, by a long shot, to remember going to the library and spending days researching. If I was looking for… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
The reality is, if you go to the library and read biographies, thousands of people have changed, radically changed. St. Augustine was… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
As president of the American Historical Association, I started a programme to make dissertations into e-books in 1999. Before I knew it,… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
The library was one more essential in the parade of rooms in a big 18th-century house - and part of the required… — Peter York Copy Share Image
“But we're a university! We have to have a library!" said Ridcully. "It adds tone . What sort of people would we… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
One, I have a wonderful publisher, Black Sparrow Press; as long as they exist, they will keep me in print. And they… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
I came across 'The Song of Achilles' by Madeline Miller in one of the most romantic ways one can find a story.… — Taylor Jenkins Reid Copy Share Image
Sometimes the best reading comes just by accident. Someone talks about a book, or you're just wandering the stacks in the library,… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I was a bookworm. Every week I'd go to the library and get seven books. Remember libraries? I wonder if people still… — Colin Mochrie Copy Share Image
I could not do what I do without the kindness, consideration, resourcefulness and work of librarians, particularly in public libraries... What started… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I started Save the Libraries in 2010 by hosting a big fundraiser in my city library of DeKalb County in Atlanta. Through… — Karin Slaughter 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
If the Library of Alexandria was the emblem of our ambition of omniscience, the Web is the emblem of our ambition of… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
If you're rich, you can leave a library, a building, or a hospital wing. But writing leaves behind a visceral sense of… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
Not long before my mother died, I found a long-lost portrait of Jane Franklin's granddaughter, Jane Flagg, aged nine - oil on… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
“The International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC)... to establish a superior library reflecting the religious and intellectual traditions both of… — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas Copy Share Image
“Sometimes when I’m in a bookstore or a library, I am overwhelmed by all the things that I do not know. Then… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The tradition, particularly in old-school British detective things, is everybody's in the drawing room or the library, and they're all gathered, and… — Chris Chibnall 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
“A fool may buy all the books in the world, and they will be in his library; but he will be able… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
