Books Quote by E.A. Bucchianeri

“The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“The pursuit of knowing was freedom to me, the right to declare your own curiosities and follow them through all manner of books. I…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“History was what had happened; class was something you read about in a book.”

— Amit Chaudhuri

“Why didn’t anyone ever throw reading parties? I would be all over that crap.”

— Brittainy C. Cherry

“I wanted shelves for my books, and a finer chair for this desk. Of course there should be another library. What was a house…

— Anne Rice

“The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in the history.”

— Carl T. Rowan

“I really didn't realize the librarians were, you know, such a dangerous group. They are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the…

— Michael Moore

“He was a professor, a lover of stories, and he was building her a library in the same way other men might build their…

— Jennifer E. Smith

“I'd decided the campus was just a place to hide. There were some campus freaks who stayed on forever. The whole college scene was…

— Charles Bukowski

“It reminded me that they [the students] were more than just their scholarly shortcomings and gripes about the workload. Each had a history, a…

— Wally Lamb

“Let the barbarians burn the library, the ideas are what's important.”

— Marc Read

“surrounded by students who were all folded easily on their seats, all flush with knowledge, not of the subject of the classes, but of…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie