Bibliophilia Quote by 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

“A library is not only a place of both order and chaos; it is also the realm of chance. Books, even after they have…

— Alberto Manguel

“I knew books to be objects that loved to cluster and form disordered piles, but here books seemed robbed of their zany capacity to…

— Sheridan Hay

“Books are like magic carpets, taking us to places real and imaginary that we never thought possible.”

— Anonymous

“This leads me to the contention that simply messing around with books is one of the very best ways to pass time that there…

— Julie Rugg

“Libraries, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can remember I’ve been seduced by their labyrinthine logic.”…

— Alberto Manguel

The stories that unfold in the space of a writer's study, the objects chosen to watch over a desk, the books selected to sit…

— 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

“The unlocatable location of things thought about”

— Julian Jaynes

“When books go out into the world, they take on a life. Sometimes that life is a quiet and dusty one, waiting on the…

— Frances Mayes

“Reading a book takes you on a journey without leaving the current place you are in.”

— LaShonna Dyson

“It may be that I link every library to that first one - to my early childhood experience of drawing on the floor near…

— Siri Hustvedt