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For six months, then, Emma, at fifteen years of age, made her hands dirty with books from old lending libraries.
— Gustave Flaubert
You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have loved libraries.
— Ray Bradbury
Papa thought that any book worth reading twice was worth owning. So instead of buying desserts, we bought books.
— Natalie S. Bober
There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone.
— Lois McMaster Bujold
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
Libraries should be the beating heart of the school, not mausoleums for dusty books.
— Stephanie Harvey
I discovered reading through libraries. I grew up in a house that wasn't brimming with books.
— Mark Billingham
A library - a place full of books! Imagine!" Ivy couldn't imagine a place closer to heaven. Think of all the books you could read!
— Gemma Jackson
Give thy mind to books and libraries, and the literature and lore of the ages will give thee the wisdom of sage and seer.
— Newell Dwight Hillis
I told him. We got a library here. Got plenty of good books, too. -Larry Brown, Dirty Work
— Larry Brown
Books are a world in themselves, it is true; but they are not the only world. The world itself is a volume larger than all the libraries in it.
— William Hazlitt
Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries.
— Jonathan Zittrain
Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story.
— Alberto Manguel
Books and bottles breed generosity, and the bibliophile and the oenophile og through life scattering largesse from their libraries and cellars
— Holless Wilbur Allen
Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.
— Maud Hart Lovelace
To build up a library is to create a life. It's never just a random collection of books.
— Carlos Maria Dominguez
I didn't like seeing books damaged. I'd seen enough burned-out schoolhouses and libraries in my first life.
— Andrew Smith
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.
— Raymond Chandler
To know your way round a library is to master the whole of culture, i.e. the whole world.
— Sophie Divry
The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.
— David Strathairn
Classroom libraries are not 25 copies of 5 books. Classroom libraries are 1000-2000 copies of different books.
— Richard Allington
There is a value to books - unhackable, paper books - that measures far beyond mere ink and paper.
— Richard Due
Books are carnival rides for your imagination.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
She was a poetry book with the wrong dust jacket, shelved in the Reference section.
— Joyce Rachelle
Libraries are zoos for books.
— Craig Dworkin
To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please.
— Richard Baxter
I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries.
— Adriana Trigiani
Seventy million books in America's libraries, but the one you want to read is always out.
— Thomas Lansing Masson
Love : so many people read about it in books and research on it in libraries yet so few discover the real feeling of it!
— Avijeet Das
Libraries should be open to all - except the censor.[Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960] — John F. Kennedy
The bright stars of the skies are far to touch; but there are other shiny stars that you can touch easily: The books of the libraries!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
I've always liked libraries. They're quiet and full of books and full of knowledge.
— Haruki Murakami
Rule number one: Don't fuck with librarians.
— Neil Gaiman
My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.
— Joan Bauer
a light that made me think of long hours in dusty libraries, and old books, and silence.
— Donna Tartt
Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.
— Anne Herbert
He liked bookstores, and libraries too. They had a sacred, peaceful hush, like graveyards without the shadow of death.
— Garrett Leigh
The library was the best place in the world.
— Anita Anand
They should be taking bonuses from bankers, not library books from schoolchildren. What kind of society are we building?
— Sara Sheridan
There wasn't a place I could think of that was more magical than a building bursting with books and stories and words ...
— Lindsay Eland
There was the smell of old books, a smell that has a way of making all libraries seem the same. Some say that smell is asbestos.
— Scott Douglas
Libraries are a consistent and major source of books for free reading.
— Stephen D. Krashen
Libraries are about books. Books have no color. And they don't care who reads them.
— Augusta Scattergood
Epics are never written about libraries. They exist on whim; it depends on if the conquering army likes to read.
— Patricia A. McKillip
Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.
— Cecil B. DeMille
Keeping libraries open, giving access to all children to all books is vital to our nation's sovereignty.
— Karin Slaughter
Don't mark up the Library's copy, you fool! Librarians are Unprankable. They'll track you down! They have skills!
— Charles Ogden
You could never be certain what you would find in a book that had spent time with someone else.
— Erica Bauermeister
Choosing a new book was like looking for treasure.
— Kit Pearson
Libraries raised me.
— Ray Bradbury
We should do our best to satisfy your interests in stories and books and the world. There are libraries.
— Neil Gaiman
Bookshop and libraries are great celestial places to be.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
LibrariesAre
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Gardens,
Unsurpassed
At
Growing
Excitement — J. Patrick Lewis
Her library is a meeting place for all who love books. They discuss matters of the world and matters of the spirit.
— Jeanette Winter
One of the many reasons I love libraries. Everyone is lost and not wanting to be found in a library.
— Sarah Noffke
When I was his age, and even today, when it comes to books and libraries, too much is never enough
— Josh Hanagarne
A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.
— Andrew Carnegie
The library became the cathedral where I would come to worship amd the stories were as precious to me as prayers.
— Anita Anand
A library bears similar qualities to a hospital. Librarians are like doctors, books the prescriptions.
— Trudy Wallis
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
Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.
— William Shakespeare
You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.
— Elizabeth Kostova
