Language Quote by Deb Caletti

Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

It's not just that everyone has a story. It's that everyone has a thousand stories. Everyone is infinite.

— Leslie Jamison

Books are a world in themselves, it is true; but they are not the only world. The world itself is a volume larger than…

— William Hazlitt

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It’s a natural consequence of the capacity of a bookstore or library to contain entire worlds, whole universes, and all contained between the covers…

— John Connolly

I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself.

— Henry David Thoreau

“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

“When we talk about books…we are talking about our approximate recollections of books… What we preserve of the books we read—whether we take notes…

— Pierre Bayard

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

A story in Asimov's is read by hundreds of thousands of people.

— Greg Egan

“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

But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on our population…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson