Books Quote by Martha Cooley

“Most people enter a library and don’t hear a thing. Eerie silence. I stand between the shelves and hear ten thousand conversations occurring all…

— Charles Martin

“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

“… no place is more filled with imagined voices than a library.”

— Wayne C. Booth

To those with ears to hear, libraries are really very noisy places. On their shelves we hear the captured voices of the centuries-old conversation…

— Timothy Healy

“Usually, I set one foot in a library and I feel my own internal volume lower. A library is a physical equivalent of a…

— Deb Caletti

“The moment I walk into a bookstore, I remember what I love about them. They are an oasis of intellectual calm. Perhaps it’s the…

— Michael Lopp

“In college I retreated to the library. I have always loved libraries - the quiet, the smell, the expectation of imminent discovery. In the…

— Siri Hustvedt

“A silent Library is a sad Library. A Library without patrons on whom to pile books and tales and knowing and magazines full of…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“A library is a sacred place where the voices of the ancients can still be heard if we but give them the required silence.”

— James Rozoff

“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

“True,' I said, amazed. Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or devine, that lie outside books. Now I…

— Umberto Eco

I can hear the library humming in the night, a choir of authors murmuring inside their books along the unlit, alphabetical shelves, Giovanni Pontano…

— Billy Collins