Quotes About Books

Classroom libraries are not 25 copies of 5 books. Classroom libraries are 1000-2000 copies of different books.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

Better to lose a book to a child, than to lose a child to illiteracy.

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.

One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!

The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed by our daily task, or else demoralized by it, as by nothing else.

One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long.

I have an excellent memory - for books and authors, that is. I remember all the books I've read.

I was a late bloomer when it came to reading. My parents didn't really read. Neither one of my parents went to college. I did not grow up with any literature in the house at all.

When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark.

I read a lot of books; I am a lazy person when I don't work!

The experience of an actual film from idea to screen will teach me more than most books and lectures.

I was a librarian.

I know that when I was a children's librarian, that was about 1940, boys particularly asked where were the books about kids like us, and there weren't any at that time.

Just to be back in the world of 'The Librarian' again was such a joy.

I wanted to be a librarian.

Public libraries were a huge source of comfort and joy for me when I was growing up. I still spend time there.

I love libraries, as anyone who has a brain does.

As a kid, I used to go to the library and take out all the art books.

What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists.

My parents were really poor. We never bought books because you could go to the library. It would be stupid to buy one.

And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.

My father was in the Army and we moved around a lot, and one of my favorite places was the library.

My mother brought us to the library every week, and I read a lot. That's what kept me company. I went from school to school, but there was always reading.