Every night, I was read to. Every Friday, we were taken to the library. I always received at least one book for… — Avi Copy Share Image
My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library. I got what little educational foundation I got in the third-floor reading room, under… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day. 'Heres Matt at home learning his lines. Here's Matt… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
People have libraries at home, they have bookshelves, they have CDs. And they sort of try, people try to bring great artists… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“No books!” I exclaimed. “How do you contrive to live here without them? if I may take the liberty to inquire. Though… — Michaela MacColl Copy Share Image
Like most of my friends in school, I was a member of multiple circulating libraries; and all of us, to begin with,… — Aravind Adiga 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
“But before [William Stoner] the future lay bright and certain and unchanging. He saw it, not as a flux of event and… — John Williams Copy Share Image
“What we face is not a loss of books but the loss of a world. As in Alexandria after Aristotle’s time, or… — Matthew Battles Copy Share Image
I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the minute… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Law-abiding Americans deserve to know that their government will not secretly tap their phones, read their medical records, access their library accounts… — Ralph Neas Copy Share Image
As a kid, I would get my parents to drop me off at my local library on their way to work during… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There was a library near us in San Francisco. It was the West Portal Public Library. I would ask my father to… — Jeffrey Tambor Copy Share Image
My daughter is reading various Young Adult vampire stuff, and I ask her, "Is there even a bad vampire in the story?"… — Mike Mignola Copy Share Image
Going to the Huntington gardens and libraries was radically important for me. They have one of the best collections of 18th- and… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
The national school is not a lecture hall or a library. Its schooling consists chiefly in experimental collective action aimed at the… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
As convenient as it is for information to come to us, libraries do have a valuable side effect: they force all of… — Neal Stephenson 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
If there's a problem, we at Wine Library never tell ourselves that once we handle this issue, we'll never have to deal… — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
“I deserve a swift kick in the shorts for all the times I've stubbornly wound my way through the library stacks, my… — Michael Perry Copy Share Image
“It's like a sealed, forgotten chamber in me; I shan't feel complete until I've discovered its entrance.' 'Sounds like a tomb. Aren't… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
I acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa - where today it is rightly said that when a griot… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
“Libraries, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can remember I’ve been seduced by their… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
It's Will," she said. "He's being absolutely ridiculous in the dining room." Charlotte looked puzzled. "How is this different from him being… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
My ideal beach house has bookshelves full of paperbacks that can tolerate a little sand, a DVD library that includes some Disney… — Mary Kay Andrews Copy Share Image
“Yet there in the library, Hamish and I climbed the bright ladder of the body, as if it were sky and we… — Regina O'Melveny Copy Share Image
I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
It was 1953, and I was still at school. I'd borrowed a silent French film from the library for my 9.5mm projector.… — Kevin Brownlow Copy Share Image
I do a lot of research for my books. I can't possibly know all the things I write about and I love… — Linda Conrad Copy Share Image
I followed the launch of the library with Margaret Atwood and then David Mitchell. I just sat quietly at home secretly envying… — Sjon Copy Share Image
I went into the library and read about fast food and became amazed by all the stuff I didn't know. I learned… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
I've never been a collector - just a consumer - and these days unless a book is signed to me by another… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
My father had inklings of my cultural aspirations. He would take me to the library, things like that. But he wasn't one… — Gary Kemp Copy Share Image
The year after I graduated college I had a job in a library. When people underlined passages in the library books, or… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
![“But before [William Stoner] the future lay bright and certain and unchanging. He saw it, not as a flux of event and change and potentiality, but as a territory ahead that awaited his exploration. He saw it as the great University library, to which new wings might be built, to which new books might…” quote by John Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/12b/john-williams-3311_books_but-before-william-stoner-the-future-lay_1370142.jpg)
![“I acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa - where today it is rightly said that when a griot dies, it is as if a library has burned to the ground.” quote by Alex Haley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/80b/alex-haley-8212_acknowledge_i-acknowledge-immense-debt-to-the-griots_2011579.jpg)
![“I do a lot of research for my books. I can't possibly know all the things I write about and I love learning new things. I spend hours and hours doing research in books, libraries and online. [Once] I traveled to the reservation to get the settings and the flavor of the place down right.” quote by Linda Conrad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b5/linda-conrad-61684_book_i-do-a-lot-of-research-for-my-books-i-ca_485908.jpg)
