Architecture Quote by Alan Bennett

“To reduce a library to simple architecture, bricks and mortar is a mistake. Similarly, to suggest a library is defined by the books on…

— Hardeep Singh Kohli

“Libraries are not, or at least should not be, engines of productivity. If anything, they should slow people down and seduce them with the…

— Barbara Fister

If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and…

— Alberto Manguel

“Libraries are not made; they grow. Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.”

— Augustine Birrell

“A great library cannot be constructed; it is the growth of ages.”

— John Hill Burton

“Having a nice library doesn’t make you smart. Don’t buy books and stack them up in your library; read them.”

— Mensah Oteh

“If you want to damage a culture - attack it's libraries. Libraries can be as strong as a tree, but they're as fragile as…

— Stephen Abrams

“A library is a different kind of social reality (of the three dimensional kind), which by its very existence teaches a system of values…

— Zadie Smith

“Libraries are not, never will be, used by everyone.”

— Alberto Manguel

“But the library - especially one so vast - is no mere cabinet of curiosities; it's a world, complete and uncompleteable, and it is…

— Matthew Battles

“Libraries are very special spaces, spaces where people come together in separate but joint pursuits of knowledge, of learning. Libraries are the heartbeats of…

— Alan Bennett

“A little library, growing larger every year, is an honorable part of a man's possessions. A library is not a luxury. It is one…

— Henry Ward Beecher