Empty Quote by Alberto Manguel

“My book shelf is never empty because an empty one would steal my imagination.”

— Laurie Bowler

Popular magazines multiply while the library shelves remain undisturbed.

— Elisabeth Marbury

It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious completely unrelated to the…

— Anne Fadiman

It has always been my experience that, whatever groupings I choose for my books, the space in which I plan to lodge them necessarily…

— Alberto Manguel

One of my 'Secrets of Adulthood' is: Somewhere, keep an empty shelf. I know where my empty shelf is, and I treasure it.

— Gretchen Rubin

“It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious corpus of volumes whose…

— Anne Fadiman

It is an awfully sad misconception that librarians simply check books in and out. The library is the heart of a school, and without…

— Jarrett J. Krosoczka

“A library after closing is a lonely place. It is heart-poundingly silent, and the rows of shelves create an almost unfathomable number of dark…

— Vicki Myron

But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence.

— Alberto Manguel

A modern librarian, who has faith in the law that 'BOOKS ARE FOR USE,' is happy only when his readers make his shelves constantly…

— S. R. Ranganathan

A self without a shelf remains cryptic; a home without books naked.

— Leah Price

“There is nothing,” Naudé wrote, “that renders a Library more recommendable, than when every man finds in it that which he is looking for…

— Alberto Manguel