Archives Quote by José Saramago

“People like to be shown around archives. I don’t know why. I’m in the business, but one row of shelves stuffed with manila files…

— V.T. Davy

“The first two rooms were in the same state as the corridor. Dirty, and piled with junk. Dead typewriters, telephones, three-legged chairs. I was…

— Hugh Laurie

“It is only the rooms of the present I wish to inhabit.”

— Regina O'Melveny

“The space itself - its piles of papers representing decades of tangled history - reminded me of all that I didn't know and couldn't…

— Avi Steinberg

“Memory, I must suppose, if it is neglected becomes like a box room, or a lumber room in an old house, the contents jumbled…

— Sebastian Barry

“Our archives are treasure troves - a testament to many lives lived and the complexity of the way we move forward. They contain clues…

— Sara Sheridan

“The whole room was like a museum of how people lived in olden times.”

— Patrick Ness

“Why should I want to have a lot of copies of this and that lying around? Nothing but clutter in the office, a temptation…

— John Brooks

“If nothing else, a house is a place to keep books in.”

— Robert Pogue Harrison

“Four years of service, and the Archive is still so full of secrets—some big, like altering; some small, like this. The more of them…

— Victoria Schwab

“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

“I say now, as I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely…

— Arthur Conan Doyle