Cambridge university Quote by Larry Stone

[People in 1600s] didn't have many books. They would have been staggered by the personal libraries we have today, because books back then were…

— Stephen Greenblatt

I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself.

— Henry David Thoreau

It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.

— Alan Bennett

“Good libraries hold several millions of books: even if we read a book a day, we would read only 365 a year, around 3,600…

— Umberto Eco

There is nothing for it but for all of us to invent our own ideal libraries of classics. I would say that such a…

— Italo Calvino

The library was one more essential in the parade of rooms in a big 18th-century house - and part of the required kit ever…

— Peter York

“A little library, growing larger every year, is an honourable part of a man's history. It is a man's duty to have books. A…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore:…

— Anthony Burgess

“Not everyone was thrilled with Gutenberg’s creation. As today, there were pessimists and scolds who viewed new technology as a blight on civilization. In…

— William Powers

Books are a world in themselves, it is true; but they are not the only world. The world itself is a volume larger than…

— William Hazlitt

There are almost as many kinds of libraries as there are kinds of readers.

— Anonymous

“The library sucked up sound like a vacuum. All of those thousands and thousands of unread books sucking up secrets for the last hundred…

— Michael Sears