Libraries Quote by Alberto Manguel

“Nothing is more important than an unread library.”

— John Waters

“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 always bigger on the inside because every book has an entire word inside of it.”

— Robert Arger

“A library is not only a place of both order and chaos; it is also the realm of chance. Books, even after they have…

— Alberto Manguel

“...any library, by its very existence, conjures up its forbidden or forgotten double: an invisible but formidable library of the books that, for conventional…

— Alberto Manguel

“One: A Library Is the Size of the Universe and the Universe Is the Size of a Library. Two: Everyone Is Looking for a…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“What is more important to a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it exists." [ The Premise…

— Archibald MacLeish

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

What is more important in a library than anything else-than everything else-is the fact that it exists.

— Archibald MacLeish

“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

“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

“Nothing is so intimately a part of a man as his library. It contains just what the possessor wants to look at most often,…

— H.P. Lovecraft