Apes Quote by Terry Pratchett

The librarians were mysterious. It was said they could tell what book you needed just by looking at you, and they could take your…

— Terry Pratchett

Years later he'd stood in the charred ruins of a library where blackened books lay in pools of water. Shelves tipped over. Some rage…

— Cormac McCarthy

I sat and thought for four (delayed train) hours, and all the details bubbled up in my brain, and this scrawny, black-haired, bespectacled boy…

— Anonymous

...knowing that to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of eternity's engine.

— Stephen King

“In many ways,' answered the wizard. 'It is far more powerful than I ever dared to think at first, so powerful that in the…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Because a thief really was a lot like a wizard.”

— Sarah Prineas

“Librarians were somewhat on a par with God-who else could be bothered with, and better yet, know the answers to so many different types…

— Jodi Picoult

He had read books, newspapers and magazines. He knew that if you ran away you sometimes met bad people who did bad things to…

— Neil Gaiman

“Saw a funny thing this mornin’,” he said. “Saw a monkey in the quad. Bold as brass.” “Oh, yes,” said the Bursar, cheerfully. “That…

— Terry Pratchett

“But Dad! It really did happen! I was transported to a Laboratory in an old stone castle and there was a wizard in blue…

— L.R.W. Lee

“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

“He had loved the library, and had felt, as a boy, as though it had a kind of sentience, and perhaps loved him back.…

— Laini Taylor