Book Quote by Virginia Woolf Download Open image “I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.” — Virginia Woolf ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Librarian Libraries Libraries and librarians Library Public library Reading Thought provoking Treasure
“Virginia Wolf once said, “I ransack libraries and find them full of sunken treasure.” — Lili Valente Copy Share Image
Here is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I used to steal from the library, which is a crime and it's bad, but I just couldn't get enough books, and I also… — Sara Pascoe Copy Share Image
For those without money, the road to the treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library. — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
Loaded with note cards for research papers that I was hopelessly behind on, I'd enter the Public Library only to end up wandering around… — Stuart Dybek Copy Share Image
It's been scattered and I had to follow leads. Some stuff was with different family members in various drawers. I find out about more… — Aaron Brookner Copy Share Image
I always try to scour local vintage shops and antique stores as much as I can while I'm on the road - it's my… — Alison Sudol Copy Share Image
I liked reading and working out my ideas in the midst of that endless crowd walking in and out of the (library) looking for… — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
“Every time I went to the library, it felt like a treasure hunt: somewhere amid those dusty books was the answer, and all I… — Jean M. Twenge Copy Share Image
I am something of an aficionado of thrift stores. In my youth, I regularly searched their shelves for old books. — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
“The train slows and lengthens, as we approach London, the centre, and my heart draws out too, in fear, in exaltation. I am about… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword. On one side all is correct, definite, orderly; the paths… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Other worshipful objects were content with worship; men, women, God, all let one kneel prostrate; but this form, were it only the shape of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Sometimes he woke with a brain like lead; at others it was as if a thousand wax tapers were alight and people were throwing… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life -… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Love ought to stop on both sides, don’t you think, simultaneously?’ He spoke without any stress on the words, so as not to wake… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It is so vast an alleviation to be able to point for another to look at. And then not to talk. To follow the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! (...) I think I could happily live here & read forever.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
