Archive Quote by V.T. Davy

“...it is an archive...You probably get rooms like this in even the most modern of offices, like a rusty anchor chained to the past…

— José Saramago

“I'm so excited. I just bought a new file cabinet, some manila folders, some sticky note pads, and a few highlighters, and I think…

— Jarod Kintz

“Why should I want to have a lot of copies of this and that lying around? Nothing but clutter in the office, a temptation…

— John Brooks

“Archive material is a fabulous starting point - individual documents are like signposted roads, heading to a variety of intriguing possibilities.”

— Sara Sheridan

“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

“There are three shelves with about forty books on each shelf. As I look through them, I am hoping for something that will take…

— James Frey

“Aside from the posters, wherever there was room, there were books. Stacks and stacks of books. Books crammed into mismatched shelves and towers of…

— Megan Crane

“I suddenly missed the curious shelving patterns of my room, those old planks from the barn groaning under the weight of the notebooks. Shelving…

— Reif Larsen

“It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious corpus of volumes whose…

— Anne Fadiman

“loathe collectible books anyway. People getting all moony over particular paper carcasses. It’s the ideas that matter, man.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

“People aren't like books. You can't set them on a shelf and expect them to stay there.”

— Bailey Nadeen

“I’ve been sifting through the layers of dusty books and faded papers. They tell a story I used to know; one that happened so…

— Kate Wolf