Books Quote by Umberto Eco

“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

“The very idea of a library for me is bound to my mother and father and includes the history of my own metamorphosis through…

— Siri Hustvedt

“Pulverized by literature,' thought Miss Laburnum. 'The ideal way for a librarian to die.”

— Margaret Mahy

“When thinking harshly on the human condition, as I so often do, my antidote is to think gently on libraries, for if human beings…

— Howard Norman

“I felt myself surrounded by millions of abandoned pages, by worlds and souls without an owner sinking in an ocean of darkness, while the…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“The monuments, the ideas left behind by beings like me are my greatest pleasure in life. Without books I would long ago have been…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“Long ago I fell back on books as the only permanent consolers. They are the one stainless and unimpeachable achievement of the human race.…

— Christopher Morley

“When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last for only as long as you can…

— Karen Joy Fowler

“The glory of the library for me is how many of the books are in poor physical condition. They are books that have been…

— Linda Grant

“Some say they get lost in books, but I find myself, again and again, in the pages of a good book. Humanly speaking, there…

— L.R.Knost

“But for me to start the journey of writing a book about my life, the first place I had to re visit was my…

— Christian S. Simpson

“More than anything, memory resembles a library in alphabetical disorder, and with no collected works by anyone.”

— Joseph Brodsky