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Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation.
— Richard Russo
[T]he only place on earth where immortality is provided is in libraries. This is the collective memory of humanity.
— Temple Grandin
I like libraries. It's a comfort that knowledge can be save for so long. That what we learn can be passed on.
— Jackson Pearce
The way we've been neglecting to support our libraries throughout the country is a shame.
— Matthew Lesko
Libraries are not facing crisis, they are in crisis.
— Patrick Ness
But still, how could they write whole libraries about someone like Kant and hardly even notice Taylor-that prophet who could see ten centuries ahead?
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom. No libraries, no progress.
— Willard Scott
You can tell a lot about an area from its library, and I'd never discount the usefulness of town archives.
— Hester Young
But fishing, as we know, in libraries or anywhere else, is a tricky business, with never a certainty of who's going to catch whom.
— J.D. Salinger
I mean, public libraries like this one were always short of money, so building even the tiniest of labyrinths had to be beyond their means.
— Haruki Murakami
Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.
— Walter Savage Landor
The library was one enormous room, with long, high metal shelves and the perfect quiet that libraries provide for anyone looking for an answer.
— Lemony Snicket
Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in prisons?
— Fran Lebowitz
I was pretty sure I'd just had a nerdgasm.
— Nicole Peeler
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
Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.
— Patrick Ness
Books and bottles breed generosity, and the bibliophile and the oenophile og through life scattering largesse from their libraries and cellars
— Holless Wilbur Allen
Most libraries were small hotbeds of gossip and personal intrigue.
— Elizabeth Hunter
The vast majority of the libraries in the United States today - nearly 100,000 of them - are school libraries.
— John Palfrey
Why may we not be in the universe, as our dogs and cats are in our drawingrooms and libraries?
— William James
Self-involved? Self-involved?!?" I jump to my feet, unable to sit still. "Let's talk about self-involved, Mr. Kissing Unsuspecting Girls in Libraries.
— Tera Lynn Childs
Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library.
— Jerzy Kosinski
Public libraries are the last vestige of public free space.
— Joshua Prince-Ramus
I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science.
— Terry Pratchett
They should be taking bonuses from bankers, not library books from schoolchildren. What kind of society are we building?
— Sara Sheridan
Destiny smells of dust and the libraries of the night.
— Neil Gaiman
Like a lot of inwardly drawn young people, I spent a lot of time in libraries. At my high school, I often spent my lunch breaks there.
— Henry Rollins
If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.
— Judith Martin
Libraries are about books. Books have no color. And they don't care who reads them.
— Augusta Scattergood
Libraries ... house our dreams.
— Nikki Giovanni
Epics are never written about libraries. They exist on whim; it depends on if the conquering army likes to read.
— Patricia A. McKillip
The library was the best place in the world.
— Anita Anand
If you want to damage a culture - attack it's libraries. Libraries can be as strong as a tree, but they're as fragile as a flower.
— Stephen Abrams
Libraries are a tremendous and valuable resource, and I'm note sure it's possible to have too many of them.
— Ann Leckie
Bookshop and libraries are great celestial places to be.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
He liked bookstores, and libraries too. They had a sacred, peaceful hush, like graveyards without the shadow of death.
— Garrett Leigh
Access to public libraries also affects how much children read.
— Stephen D. Krashen
That's what I like so much about old libraries - they smell the way we'd like to imagine the past.
— Ruth Reichl
It was called dub, a sensuous mosaic cooked from vast libraries of digitalized pop; it was worship, Molly said, and a sense of community.
— William Gibson
I learned more about history and literature in the used bookstores in DC than in college libraries.
— Douglas Brinkley
Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging.
— Susan Orlean
Libraries do one thing that no other institution does and that's provide access to all.
— LeVar Burton
Libraries and museums are the DNA of our culture.
— Vartan Gregorian
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
That's what I like so much about libraries, they smell the way we would like to imagine the past.
— Ruth Reichl
There is a flip side to this. In the Unix world, libraries which are delivered as libraries should come with exerciser programs.
— Eric S. Raymond
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.
— Norman Cousins
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
Libraries are fun, educational, and the biggest bargain on the face of the earth.
— Madeleine Albright
Keeping libraries open, giving access to all children to all books is vital to our nation's sovereignty.
— Karin Slaughter
Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on.
— Siri Hustvedt
Don't mark up the Library's copy, you fool! Librarians are Unprankable. They'll track you down! They have skills!
— Charles Ogden
Seriously, some of my best friends are libraries.
— Gabby Rivera
Libraries are not made; they grow.
— Augustine Birrell
Libraries are the center of our lives. There's no use going to a university if you don't live at the library.
— Ray Bradbury
You could never be certain what you would find in a book that had spent time with someone else.
— Erica Bauermeister
I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination.
— Neil Gaiman
Besides, I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me.
— Roger Zelazny
I want to know how the hell you managed to locate that hideout using the damn public library.
— Richard Castle
I'll belong to libraries wherever I go. Maybe eventually I'll belong to libraries on other planets.
— Jo Walton
Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism.
[Libraries on the Front Lines, ALA interview 2011] — Neil Gaiman
[Libraries on the Front Lines, ALA interview 2011] — Neil Gaiman
The better the school library, the higher the reading scores.
— Stephen D. Krashen
Despite our enormous brains and jam-packed libraries, we germ hotels cannot expect to understand absolutely everything.
— Kurt Vonnegut
I have done quite a few signings at bookstores, libraries and conferences. I have received phone calls and letters from people who liked the book.
— Kate DiCamillo
The justices have constitutionally protected obscenity in libraries, filth over cable television, and now unlimited internet pornography.
— Phyllis Schlafly
Universities no longer spend as much time bragging about the size of their libraries. The
— Seth Godin
Do not trust an architect: he will always try to talk you into an atrium.
— Elizabeth McCracken
Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.
— Huston Smith
I remember the first book I bought, when I was about 11 ... Dad said, 'What have you got that for? What are libraries for?'
— Kenneth Branagh
Libraries are where it all begins.
— Rita Dove
I don't want to see libraries close; I want to find local solutions that will make them sustainable.
— Alan Bennett
I liked the thought that the book I was now holding had been held by dozens of others.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
Libraries are a kind of communism which the least revolutionary among us may be proud to advocate.
— Joseph Chamberlain
I remember visits to the local libraries and getting my own library cards as things of rite-of-passage significance.
— Richard K. Morgan
I love libraries. Everybody there is serious and focused even if they are not absorbing or learning anything better
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.
— Arthur Ashe
Clever, smart and wise people have one in common that they read quotes, they are curious for knowledge and they have big libraries!
— Deyth Banger
Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries.
— David Strathairn
Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.
— Cecil B. DeMille