Ian Sansom

“Everyone loved a good reader. And he'd always loved being a great reader - until recently. Maybe it was just part of…

— Ian Sansom

“But then twitching nervously in the presence of a librarian wasn't an uncommon response—librarians, like ministers of religion, and poets, and people…

— Ian Sansom

“Massive changes may have occurred in libraries in recent years, with new digital resources and services supplementing the old traditional resources and…

— Ian Sansom

“Children are bad enough--children are rude, selfish, greedy, and unthinking individuals who are unable to distinguish between their own selfish wants and…

— Ian Sansom

“Israel had always thought that growing up was simply something that happened to you: you grew taller, more dextrous, you acquired language,…

— Ian Sansom

“the kind of child who seemed to start reading without anyone realising or noticing,”

— Ian Sansom

“[L]ibrarians, like ministers of religion, and poets, and people with mental health disorders, can make people nervous.”

— Ian Sansom

“Israel was thinking of warm beer, and muffins, and Wensleydale cheese, and Wallace and Gromit, and the music of Elgar, and the…

— Ian Sansom

If there is a lack of specificity in Grossman's description of the town and the walkers, and if the story perhaps sometimes…

— Ian Sansom

“Those who can, do; those who can't learn classification and cataloguing.”

— Ian Sansom

If you're going to be a writer, you're going to write because you have to. It's not like other arts and not…

— Ian Sansom