Book Quote by Charles Stross

Librarians in America do something like a couple of billion dollars worth of book business every year.

— Michael Moore

Do you know what they call people who hoard books? Smart.

— Lisa Scottoline

I remember one letter from a girl in a midwestern town who read one of my books and thought she had discovered it- that…

— J. P. Donleavy

Like most of my friends in school, I was a member of multiple circulating libraries; and all of us, to begin with, borrowed and…

— Aravind Adiga

A library is a temple unabridged with priceless treasure. Librarians are the majesties who loan the jewels of measure. They welcome to the kingdom…

— Pam Muñoz Ryan

Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madams, greeting punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and pimping their…

— Guy Browning

Librarians lend people books from the library. The best librarians are children's book librarians.

— Richard Scarry

“Many of my friends think I read books all day and alphabetize the shelves. Well, sometimes I do alphabetize shelves. But more often than…

— Jack Canfield Carrie O'Maley

Libraries are public treasuries. They're ways in which well-meaning societies leave the wealth of the past arranged A to Z so that anyone walking…

— Francis Spufford

I remember as a young child, during one of my frequent trips to the local library, spending hours looking at book after book trying…

— Daniel Tammet

There are many ways of discarding [books]. You can give them to friends,--or enemies,--or to associations or to poor Southern libraries. But the surest…

— Carolyn Wells

Librarians save lives by handing the right book at the right time to a kid in need.

— Judy Blume