Books Quote by Patrick Ness

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 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

“The books I'd checked out of the library earlier in the week were still stacked on my bureau, whispering my name and begging to…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“People are often dismissive of librarians and libraries....But isn't that where the best stories are kept? Hidden away on the library bookshelves, lost and…

— Justine Picardie

“I had spent a great deal of time in the library, getting lost in the worlds created in books while avoiding the world I…

— Annette K. Larsen

“The bookworm of great libraries.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“It had a crisp paper jacket, unlike the paper-covered library books I was used to, and the way the pages parted, I could tell…

— Allison Hoover Bartlett

“Nor did I forget what is the natural pleasure of every man who has been a reader;… filling the shelves of a tolerably large…

— Walter Scott

“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

“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

“I wished I could take every course in the curriculum and read every book in the library. Sometimes after I finished a particularly good…

— Susan Crandall

“It was clear that people were not rushing to the shelves. In fact, I’d never seen anybody in a library pick up a small…

— Josip Novakovich