Book Quote by Billy Collins

“In a few minutes I heard the books' voices: a low, steady, unsupressible hum. I'd heard it many times before. I've always had a…

— Martha Cooley

“Most people enter a library and don’t hear a thing. Eerie silence. I stand between the shelves and hear ten thousand conversations occurring all…

— Charles Martin

“It may be that I link every library to that first one - to my early childhood experience of drawing on the floor near…

— Siri Hustvedt

“True,' I said, amazed. Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or devine, that lie outside books. Now I…

— Umberto Eco

“Libraries, whether my own or shared with a greater reading public, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as…

— Alberto Manguel

“With its reverent silence the Library was as close to a religious experience as anything he had ever encountered. Its domed reading room was…

— J.E Allen

he looked around at the books on the walls, at their dark, worn spines, and he seemed to hear a strange, distant murmur coming…

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte

To those with ears to hear, libraries are really very noisy places. On their shelves we hear the captured voices of the centuries-old conversation…

— Timothy Healy

“A library is a sacred place where the voices of the ancients can still be heard if we but give them the required silence.”

— James Rozoff

“Alone in the worn mahogany paneled library surrounded by hundreds of books that filled every shelf and lined every wall from floor to ceiling,…

— Lance Taubold

The gloomy recess of an ecclesiastical library is like a harbor, into which a far-traveling curiosity has sailed with its freight, and cast anchor.…

— Robert Aris Willmott

The library is my cathedral.

— Barbara Bretton