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A few books well chosen, and well made use of will be more profitable than a great confused Alexandrian library.
— Thomas Fuller
Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.
— John F. Kennedy
If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be.
— Alberto Manguel
One day, she ventured to the palace library and was delighted to find what good company books could be.
— E. Lockhart
He felt like a mobile library. Where other investigators gathered fingerprints and evidence, he gathered books.
— Louise Penny
In my library/study/barn, there is a Ping-Pong table on which I can pile working books and spread maps.
— Antony Beevor
Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They can change yours.
— David Baldacci
We find paradise in every library and bookshop.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A library of books is the fairest garden in the world, and to walk there is an ecstasy.
— E. Powys Mathers
To sit in a big library amongst books and students, that was pretty cool. It was a novel experience for me.
— Jonathan Taylor Thomas
The dusty library air is electric with secrets/ almost palpable in the thick quiet that bounces between/ Cal and those books and me
— Stasia Ward Kehoe
Still and all, I think a library is a library is a library, don't you? No matter how big or small. Books are important.
— Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli
I like to keep my books in my library, he said, 'and I like my library to get bigger rather than smaller.
— Joseph Delaney
Every Intelligent person was once a fool.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
If you steal any of the books from the library, I will know, and you'll be sorry.Jessamine Lovelace. — Cassandra Clare
Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.
— Maud Hart Lovelace
Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
— Rabindranath Maharaj
Heaven would be a comfortable chair, a library, Diet Coke, and an occasional cheese pizza. Sex once in a while. No talking. ~ Drew Stirling
— Jayden Hunter
For me, every book is an individual with its own identity and has to be nurtured and taken care of, so that it may survive for a longer period. — Anurag Shourie
Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace.
— Helene Hanff
I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger. 'No, and if he were I would burn my library.
— William Shakespeare
Books are but dead bodies to you, and a library nothing but a catacomb!
— George MacDonald
I have always been an obsessive reader - I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books taller than I was.
— Lisa Kleypas
The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the stacks.
— Michael Dirda
You can read books without ever stepping into a library; and practice spirituality without ever going to a temple.
— Anthony De Mello
The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.
— Maira Kalman
Seated in my library at night, and looking on the silent faces of my books, I am occasionally visited by a strange sense of the supernatural.
— Alexander Smith
Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading.
— Nikola Tesla
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence.
— Alberto Manguel
Standing before the worn books and dusty shelves, she seemed like a ray of light in the windowless room.
— Lisa Kleypas
Every time I went to the library, it felt like a treasure hunt: somewhere amid those dusty books was the answer, and all I had to do was find it.
— Jean M. Twenge
Creating a world within the imagination one day at a time through words and colors.
— Peggy A. Borel
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
— Maya Angelou
I was pretty sure the only two rooms I needed in my house were a kitchen with a huge table and a library full of books. "It'll
— April White
He's at the library, I think. Safe and sound in his world of books ... Maybe he'll write one someday.
— Lurlene McDaniel
I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed --and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet. — John Dawkins
If you're frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you'll never write anything, until you close your eyes and hold the pen.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.
— Carolyn Wells
Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
— Michael Caine
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ereaders were a great convenience, but nothing could beat the smell of a library and old books.
— Kate Evangelista
Life is a rich literature.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books.
— Tom T. Hall
Libraries are a consistent and major source of books for free reading.
— Stephen D. Krashen
He liked bookstores, and libraries too. They had a sacred, peaceful hush, like graveyards without the shadow of death.
— Garrett Leigh
The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.
— Lynda Barry
The books I'd checked out of the library earlier in the week were still stacked on my bureau, whispering my name and begging to be read.
— Laurie Halse Anderson
He would go somewhere no one knew him, and he would sit in a library all day and read books and listen to people breathing.
— Neil Gaiman
I see the beauty of books and sacred-souls of every author displaced in a bookshop.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.
— Elizabeth Kostova
And best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her.
— Louisa May Alcott
I'm a fastidious bookman and have never liked reading books with library markings or other messy defects.
— Larry McMurtry
In the library, surrounded by books and computers and scientific journals, I feel like I could grow.
— Jeremy Bronaugh
I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I'll still be with my books.
— Alberto Manguel
Having access to the library was all well and good, but as a collector you had to own the book.
— John Baxter
I suspect that the real attraction was a large library of fine books, which was left to dust and spiders since Uncle March died.
— Louisa May Alcott
the best of Cervantes is untranslatable, and this undeniable fact is in itself an incentive [for one and all] to learn Spanish.
— Aubrey F.G. Bell
She was sorry to have left her room. She looked at the pile of library books on her floor [...] and felt better.
— Tracey Lindberg
The venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals.
— Samuel Davies
I do things like get in a taxi and say, The library, and step on it.
— David Foster Wallace
Books exist for me not as physical entities with pages and binding, but in the province of my mind.
— Sara Sheridan
Bookshop and libraries are great celestial places to be.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Her library is a meeting place for all who love books. They discuss matters of the world and matters of the spirit.
— Jeanette Winter
Ms Rainn, when was the last time you visited a library for the books and not the free Internet it offers?
— S.A. Tawks
I was a library rat and a bookworm. I read all the time. I walked to school reading books. I read under my desk.
— Chelsea Cain
One of the many reasons I love libraries. Everyone is lost and not wanting to be found in a library.
— Sarah Noffke
I remember going to a monastery library when I was very young and being surrounded by ancient books. I fell in love.
— Hans Ulrich Obrist
A fool may buy all the books in the world, and they will be in his library; but he will be able to read only those that he deserves to.
— Swami Vivekananda
When I was his age, and even today, when it comes to books and libraries, too much is never enough
— Josh Hanagarne
Make thy books thy companions. Let thy cases and shelves be thy pleasure grounds and gardens.
— Judah Ben Saul Ibn Tibbon
They knew the difference between thoroughness and overkill. It was like Jay Gatsby's library: the books were real, but the pages were uncut.
— Haruki Murakami
The public library is where place and possibility meet.
— Stuart Dybek
When I was a student I spent a lot of time in the library. That's where the books and smart girls were.
— Mike Bove
