Books Quote by J.E Allen

“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

“The room was as big as the Duke of Pardloe's library and had at least as many books, and yet the feeling of it…

— Diana Gabaldon

“In college I retreated to the library. I have always loved libraries - the quiet, the smell, the expectation of imminent discovery. In the…

— Siri Hustvedt

“The library is a whispering post. You don't need to take a book off a shelf to know there is a voice inside that…

— Susan Orlean

“The library was one of the few places approved by my mother. I must have read almost every book in that place, living a…

— Skye Warren

“He went through rooms he named as he discovered them, and which he hardly had time to appreciate before he'd flung open a door…

— Chris Adrian

“Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently…

— Umberto Eco

“loved thick books, dusty statues, even the musty smell in the air. Libraries were treasure troves of knowledge and imagination.”

— Robert E. Keller

“I finally found my way to the Really Restricted Section, where they keep the kind of books most scholars aren't even supposed to know…

— Simon R. Green

“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

“Nor did I forget what is the natural pleasure of every man who has been a reader;… filling the shelves of a tolerably large…

— Walter Scott