Poetry Quote by Robin Sloan

“Our archives are treasure troves - a testament to many lives lived and the complexity of the way we move forward. They contain clues…

— Sara Sheridan

Keepers of books, keepers of print and paper on the shelves, librarians are keepers also of the records of the human spiritthe records of…

— Archibald MacLeish

Archives exist because there's something that can't necessarily be articulated. Something is said in the gaps between all the information.

— Taryn Simon

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

— Barbara Tuchman

“Writers of historical fiction would be lost without libraries and archives.”

— Ruta Sepetys

I think writers are the history keepers, right? We're the ones who are bearing witness to what's going on in the world. And I…

— Jacqueline Woodson

“Archive material is vital to the writer of historical fiction.”

— Sara Sheridan

As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in succession the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“My archive project is a multiedged sword. It is something I love doing, but it raises some questions about my motives in doing it.…

— Neil Young

The concept of preserving history, collating full archives, making them as usable as possible so the public have access to them, I really feel…

— Sarah Harrison

It’s important to have relationships with the people at the archives.

— Shola Lynch

“Men and women who have never lived make finer captives on the printed page, or if they have lived, and are historical, then the…

— Daphne du Maurier