Balls Quote by Julian Fellowes

My dream writing room would be the Imperial Library in Vienna.

— Fran Lebowitz

In design-speak, 'a library' means a room lined with books, floor-to ceiling, but it all depends on the space you have. You may have…

— Nate Berkus

Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle.

— Franz Kafka

Books do furnish a room.

— Anthony Powell

A good library is a place, a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet.

— Shmuel Niger

The library was one enormous room, with long, high metal shelves and the perfect quiet that libraries provide for anyone looking for an answer.

— Anonymous

The library is not, as some would have it, a place for the retiring of disposition or faint of heart. It is not an…

— Eric Burns

“By then, [1737]...the French were taking advantage of the new "reading rooms" created by architects such as Blondel and of new seat furniture and…

— Joan DeJean

The room is a special place. It's not "A room" it's THE room. It's a place where there is no restriction. If we title…

— Tommy Wiseau

“I need a sitting room where I can entertain my friends, but I must have a library where my books entertain me.”

— great-grandson of John & Abigail Adams Brooks Adams

Never can a room look comfortable without books ... Books ought to be scattered all over the house, even in the passages, in the…

— Elisabeth of Wied

My childhood library was small enough not to be intimidating. And yet I felt the whole world was contained in those two rooms. I…

— Rita Dove