Book Quote by Karen Joy Fowler

“When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last for only as long as you can…

— Karen Joy Fowler

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

— Saul Bellow

Why, after all, should readers never be harrowed? Surely there is enough happiness in life without having to go to books for it.

— Dorothy Parker

Each time someone dies, a library burns.

— Jandy Nelson

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.

— Gore Vidal

Books are becoming everything to me. If I had at this moment any choice in life, I would bury myself in one of those…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Few things are better in the world than a room full of librarians. I consider them literary heroes. The keepers and defenders of the…

— Louise Penny

A modern librarian, who has faith in the law that 'BOOKS ARE FOR USE,' is happy only when his readers make his shelves constantly…

— S. R. Ranganathan

Every death is like the burning of a library.

— Alex Haley

“Librarians are serious people, seldom given to jocularity. The reason for this, I believe, is because we are overwhelmed by the enormous number of…

— Lynn Austin

I believe that when an elder dies, a library is burned: vast sums of wisdom and knowledge are lost. Throughout the world libraries are…

— Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey

In tough times, a librarian is a terrible thing to waste.

— Marilyn Johnson