Battle Quote by Libba Bray

“Ah, the Dewey decimal system…humankind’s single greatest achievement.” From Candace Fleming’s The Fabled Fourth Graders of Aesop Elementary School”

— Candace Fleming

“In my card catalogue, the Dewey Decimal System had placed him firmly under Ancient History.”

— S.E. Harmon

“-You've got a . . . Lot of books, he said at last. -it's a sickness. -Are you . . . Seeing anyone for…

— Amor Towles

I spent six months working as a temp in Hanslow Library and I mastered the Dewey Decimal System in two days flat...I'm good with…

— Donna Noble

Part of my job is to help other kids find books, because not everyone has a keenly organized mind. Some kids could wander the…

— Neal Shusterman

“I walked around the library and the library smelled like every library I had ever been in and Dewey decimals were on all the…

— Catherine Lacey

“The librarian was explaining the benefits of the Dewey decimal system to her junior--benefits that extended to every area of life. It was orderly,…

— Jeanette Winterson

Librarying is a harder profession than the public realizes, he said. People think it's all rubber stamps, knowing that Dewey 521 is celestial mechanics…

— Jasper Fforde

(about organizing books in his home library, and putting a book in the "Arts and Lit non-fiction section) I personally find that for domestic…

— Nick Hornby

“Knowledge equals power... The string was important. After a while the Librarian stopped. He concentrated all his powers of librarianship. Power equals energy... People…

— Terry Pratchett

For a whole year in elementary school, when the class marched down to the school library every week, I would refuse to return my…

— Robin Sloan

“Like a penny over time, reading ten pages a day would compound, just like that, and create inside you a ten-million-dollar bank of knowledge.”

— Jeff Olson