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Quotes About Library

You hold me very tight in under my clothes, and if there's a library anywhere near then someone just removed its roof, the shelves just flooded with the sun and all the old books just remembered what it means to be bound in skin and to have a spine.
~ Ali Smith
It was what we did," Helen [Clyne, Kate Atkinson's daughter] said. "It was a habit, a ritual. You borrowed it, you read it, you brought it back and chose something else, and someone else read whatever you read before and after you. It was communal. That's what public library means: something communal.
~ Ali Smith
That's what a public library means: something communal. - Kate Atkinson
~ Ali Smith
She'd absolutely adored the library_an entire building where anyone could take things they didn't own and feel no remorse about it.
~ Ally Carter
She'd absolutely adored the library-an entire building where anyone could take things they didn't own and feel no remorse about it.
~ Ally Carter
We're gonna need people," Kat said as Marcus opened the big double doors. "People we can trust," she added. Hale nodded and walked her down the ornate hall, pausing before a pair of sliding doors. He pushed them aside, revealing a two-story library, a warm fire, and the familiar faces of the Bagshaw brothers, Simon, and Gabrielle. "You mean, like them?
~ Ally Carter
Usted debe de ser muy feliz — le dije, sin pensar muy bien en el significado de las palabras que pronunciaba. — Pues no — y me pasó un brazo por el hombro, como si mi comentario la hubiera conmovido—. No soy muy feliz. ¿Por qué lo dices? — No sé, teniendo tantos libros... — moví las manos en el aire para ganar tiempo, mientras buscaba unas palabras que no logré encontrar—. Yo nunca he visto tantos juntos en mi vida.
~ Almudena Grandes
But humankind doesn't give a damn ! The proof of it is that in twenty-four years this novel has been collecting dust in libraries and no one, you hear me, no one has ever even talked to me about it. And that's perfectly normal because, as I told you, no one has read it.
~ Amelie Nothomb
If you're setting a game during the Cuban Missile Crisis, look through a library. find out what people were wearing, what other issues were in the news, how houses were furnished, what cars were being driven. Especially include things which now seem foreign.
~ Graham Nelson
Fridays after school, especially when the weather was lousy, Mom would take me to the library. She'd let me check out whatever I wanted, and I checked out a lot.
~ Anthony Doerr
I want to take everything I have in me, weave it, merge it with the beauty that is in the Library of Congress, all the resources, the guidance of the staff and departments, and launch it with the heart-shaped dreams of the people.
~ Juan Felipe Herrera
The web can be a fast trip to the library, giving you immediate access to a government report, or it can filter media for you, which is why I look at around 15- 20 of these sites every day.
~ Ben Schott
I love the Web, but the basis of my work is going through the physical books. When you go to the library, you see other books around on the shelves that you never knew existed. You can flip through a book and see the whole outline of it.
~ Camille Paglia
Even as the Internet has revived hope of a universal library and Google seems to promise an answer to every query, books have remained a dark region in the universe of information. We want books to be as accessible and searchable as the Web. On the other hand, we still want them to be books.
~ Gary Wolf
I don't know what your childhood was like, but we didn't have much money. We'd go to a movie on a Saturday night, then on Wednesday night my parents would walk us over to the library. It was such a big deal, to go in and get my own book.
~ Robert Redford
I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.
~ Ray Bradbury
During my childhood, Washington was a segregated city, and I lived in the midst of a poor black neighborhood. Life on the streets was often perilous. Indoor reading was my refuge, and twice a week, I made the hazardous bicycle trek to the central library at Seventh and K streets to stock up on supplies.
~ Irvin D. Yalom
I was an early reader, reading even before kindergarten, and since we did not have books in my home, my older brother, Alexander, was responsible for our trip every week to the public library to exchange books already read for new ones to be read.
~ Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
We got a copy of the 'New Statesman' at my grammar school in Wigton, Cumbria, in the 1950s. It sat mint fresh every week on the library table, with two or three other bargain-offer magazines. The 'Statesman' came out of the unimaginable Great World. I started to read it then and have pegged along ever since.
~ Melvyn Bragg
I was a little tomboy, growing up, but we had to go to the library every weekend if we wanted some form of entertainment. And I would gravitate towards the Shirley Temple, Judy Garland section of the library, and I would just pop that in and watch on replay because kids can watch movies over and over again.
~ Isabela Moner
Every weekend from, like, 1974 to 1978, I'd trudge over to the Greenwich library, which gathered up almost every major newspaper in the country. I would sit there all day long and read and read and read the reviews. I remember being twelve or thirteen and writing to Judith Crist, Pauline Kael, and Roger Ebert.
~ Rod Lurie
My children are as at home in the Port Elgin library as I used to be, and they've sat in the cinema seats where I sat with their aunt every Saturday afternoon, watching the matinee movies.
~ Susanna Kearsley
I don't have many possessions, apart from my books.
~ Gary Shteyngart