Philosophy Quote by Lev Grossman

“The librarian thought the problem was just that the right books weren’t breeding with each other and proposed a forced mating program. The library…

— Lev Grossman

“In our early days she went with me to the eugenics meetings, but that period soon ended.”

— Christina Stead

“the chaos of the world that counted people as different levels of worthy, the Library served all equally. All genders, races, levels of ability.…

— Rachel Caine

“The Librarian liked being best man. You were allowed to kiss bridesmaids, and they weren't allowed to run away.”

— Terry Pratchett

“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

“Pulverized by literature,' thought Miss Laburnum. 'The ideal way for a librarian to die.”

— Margaret Mahy

“I slammed the book shut and and crowed, 'And that is why you don't kick the librarian off the investigation!”

— Jim C. Hines

“I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to…

— Patrick Ness

“I really didn't realize the librarians were, you know, such a dangerous group. They are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the…

— Michael Moore

“...a book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands. If for a hundred and…

— Umberto Eco

“I finally found my way to the Really Restricted Section, where they keep the kind of books most scholars aren't even supposed to know…

— Simon R. Green

“In the ideal public library, we are all readers of the “middling sort.” Reading whatever we will, we fulfill a public function, preserving the…

— Matthew Battles