Quotes About Library

I always wanted to be a children's author, and I have a really big library of children's books. All the ones from when I was little, they are just so beautiful. I read kids' books, and they calm me down.

I got my first library card, for Hendon Library in north London, when I was two years old.

My dream was to have a Library of Congress catalogue number, that's all.

I'm no different from anybody else. If I don't have a card, I can't check out these books.

Print books have an amazing superpower because they don't disappear when you're done with them. Books on the shelf remind you that they exist.

La letteratura, poi, ha questo di bello: che puoi riacciuffarla in un momento qualunque del tuo percorso, che non scade mai, che non abbandona mai davvero le librerie.

As it is she will probably turn out to be one of these acid-faced virgins that sit behind little desks in public libraries and stamp dates in books.

The book was not new. Dates were stamped on the front endpaper, in and out dates. A rent book. A lending library of elaborate smut. I rewrapped the book and locked it up behind the seat. A racket like that, out in the open on the boulevard, seemed to mean plenty of protection. I sat there and poisoned myself with cigarette smoke and listened to the rain and thought about it.

In the bare room under the old library on the hill in the town at the tip of the small peninsula on the cold island so far from everything else, I lived among strangers and birds.

If libraries hold all the stories that have been told, there are ghost libraries of all the stories that have not. The ghosts outnumber the books by some unimaginably vast sum. Even those who have been audible have often earned the privlage through strategic silences or the inability to hear certain voices, including their own.

A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.

how weird it would be to have around you only as many books as you have time to read in the rest of your life. And I remain deeply attached to the physical book and the physical bookshop.

Sie haben Freunde.« »Wir haben Bücher.«

Although only seven, she'd been reading since she was three, a fact her mother told anyone who would listen. Sarah was a voracious reader, and she'd found friends hiding between the pages of books. For her, the trips to the library meant more than the refreshing burst of air-conditioning. They were life.

In a rare moment of candor, he had once told her that being in a library was like sitting down at a table laid with all his favorite foods but not being able to eat any of them. And he hated himself for it.

She could have started up a branch library (or a spectacular house fire)

Right up until the end, Victor's mind had been as methodical as an efficient library, whereas Amelia felt that hers was more like the cupboard under the stair where ancient hockey sticks were shoved in beside broken Hoovers and boxes of old Christmas decorations, and the one thing you knew was in there—a five-amp fuse, a tin of tan shoe polish, a Phillips screwdriver—would almost certainly be the one thing you couldn't lay your hands on.

But what can a man see of a library being one day in it?

I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man.

Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof.

My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.

When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.

By the by, who ever knew a man who never read or wrote neither who hadn't got some small back parlour which he would call a study!

A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.