Books Quote by Margaret Mahy

“I can see the headlines now - 'Librarian Dies From Head Explosion Due to Years of Suppression; Words Found Plastered All Over the Walls…

— Kathleen Buckley

“And to love such a librarian requires a surrendering to her eccentricities, a bowing to her pathological quietness, an obeisance to a reticence that…

— Jesse Giles Christiansen

“Isn't it what all librarians strive toward, at least in the movies and cliches? Silence, invisibility, nothing but a rambling cloud of old book…

— Rebecca Makkai

“Maybe she needed more library time in her life. More hushed time among rows of books waiting to be accidently discovered, rather than deliberately…

— Karen Doornebos

“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

“We need librarians more than we ever did. What we don't need are mere clerks who guard dead paper. Librarians are too important to…

— Seth Godin

“When thinking harshly on the human condition, as I so often do, my antidote is to think gently on libraries, for if human beings…

— Howard Norman

“What better place to kill time than a library? And for me, what better way to get to know someone than through her choice…

— Diane Setterfield

“Done to death by books? There were worse ways to go, even if you weren't a bibliophile.”

— Martin Edwards

“The library was one of the few places approved by my mother. I must have read almost every book in that place, living a…

— Skye Warren

“Libraries should be the beating heart of the school, not mausoleums for dusty books.”

— Stephanie Harvey

“She'd always been a little excitable, a little more passionate about books than your average person, but she was supposed to be -- she…

— Sarah Beth Durst