Writer Quote by Val Holley

I gave my archive to Emory University because there's a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he's the editor.

— Alice Walker

“Then he fetched a camera and photographed it from all sides. ‘For publication!’ he explained. ‘Against the day when I need a job at…

— J.L. Carr

“Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many…

— Flannery O'Connor

“The Lethean Library, for all its incalculable volumes, is, I know, sadly incomplete without Mr. Goodman's effort.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Let me note, finally, that most of the research for this book was done in the libraries of Harvard University, the size of whose…

— Alfie Kohn

“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

Library: A place where the dead lie.

— Elbert Hubbard

“I imagined a book that was both written and curated. I wanted readers to see my research, to explore the archival mix, connect with…

— Alexis Coe

“And there was some point as a professor at Stanford and Harvard when I experienced being caught in some kind of a meaningless game…

— Ram Dass

“They hauled books from the shelves, flipped through the pages, and tossed them to the floor until an entire library of legal volumes lay…

— Ariel Lawhon

“Fairyland is a very Scientifick place. We subscribe to all the best journals.”

— Catherynne M. Valente

“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