Book Quote by Alberto Manguel

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

“Libraries are sanctuaries from the world and command centers into it . . . They are, ideally, places where nothing happens and where everything…

— Rebecca Solnit

“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

The library will endure; it is the universe... We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking for lines of meaning amid…

— James Gleick

Libraries are the torch of the world, illuminating the path when it feels too dark to see. We mustn't allow that torch to be…

— Libba Bray

“No other library anywhere, for example, has a whole gallery of unwritten books - books that would have been written if the author hadn't…

— Terry Pratchett

One of the powerful functions of a library-any library-lies in its ability to take us away from worlds that are familiar and comfortable and…

— Richard F. Thomas

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor…

— Germaine Greer

[His] library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was…

— Ray Bradbury

“Libraries are sanctuaries from the world and command centers onto it: here in the quiet rooms are the lives of Crazy Horse and Aung…

— Rebecca Solnit

“Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor…

— Germaine Greer

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor…

— Andrew Carnegie