Adventure Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

“I know of an uncouth region whose librarians repudiate the vain and superstitious custom of finding a meaning in books and equate it with…

— José Borges

I know of a wild region whose librarians repudiate the vain superstitious custom of seeking any sense in books and compare it to looking…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“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

“In the library I was handed a blueprint on how to live the mysterious, unnamable, big dream life I wanted. I was handed books.…

— Ann Hood

People think librarians are unromantic, unimaginative. This is not true. We are people whose dreams run in particular ways. Ask a mountain climber what…

— Elizabeth McCracken

There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering.

— Jacqueline Woodson

“Things turn up in strange places all the time. For example library books, which possess a disconcerting ability to move from place to place,…

— Lauren Willig

“No other library anywhere, for example, has a whole gallery of unwritten books - books that would have been written if the author hadn't…

— Terry Pratchett

“When thinking harshly on the human condition, as I so often do, my antidote is to think gently on libraries, for if human beings…

— Howard Norman

“I got that familiar mania - there is information somewhere here, and I can find it, I have to. A good librarian is not…

— Elizabeth McCracken

“reading books chronically understimulates the senses.”11”

— Nicholas Carr

“I know this is one of the unthinkable taboos of our society, but I had discovered in myself a talent for a wonderful, unrepentant…

— Tana French