Book Quote by Nicholson Baker Download Open image “The function of a great library is to store obscure books.” — Nicholson Baker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Function Library Obscure Stores
Libraries are where most of us really fall in love with books, where we can browse and choose on our own. Its really one… — Kim Boykin Copy Share Image
A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back. — Cecil B. DeMille Copy Share Image
[On libraries] What's great about them is that anybody can go into them and find a book and borrow it free of charge and… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
What's the point of having a library full of books you've already read? — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I'm a library user and I just don't hoard books. To me, they're for sharing. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Seeing one's books on the shelf tells you so much about the way somebody has, over the years, put together their private library, which… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
A library is many things, but particularly it is a place where books live, and where you can get in touch with other people,… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Libraries are where we learn that we can live our lives through books. — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence. — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
I did not know that the planning for biological and chemical warfare was so widespread in England, and even in France before France fell.… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Just as the people who lived through the Second World War thought different things on different days, I think everybody who goes through that… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
There's something paralyzing about being a writer that you have to escape. I don't want to think of myself as a guy who's written… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
The great thing about novels is that you can be as unshy as you want to be. I'm very polite in person. I don't… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
“Why are things beautiful? I don´t know. That´s a good question. Isn´t it pleasing when you ask a question of a person, a teacher,… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
I'm suspicious of full-replacement programs - that is, pronouncements that one way of doing something will entirely supplant another, and that in fact we… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
“The neurons that do expire are the ones that made imitation possible. When you are capable of skillful imitation, the sweep of choices before… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
What's somewhat puzzling is that Churchill himself knew what the reaction would be to any sort of aerial attack on cities, because in 1938… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
As soon as you start doing that - changing things - it seems self-evident to me that you've entered the world of make-believe. If… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
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