Library Quotes - The library is like a candy store where everything is free
“I
always get lost in the library,' he said, 'no matter how many times I go. In
fact, I think I get lost there more, the more that I go. Like it's getting to
know me and revealing new passages.”
―
Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
“She'd
always been a little excitable, a little more passionate about books than your
average person, but she was supposed to be -- she was a librarian, after all.”
―
Sarah Beth Durst
“The
old man was peering intently at the shelves. 'I'll have to admit that he's a
very competent scholar.'
Isn't
he just a librarian?' Garion asked, 'somebody who looks after books?'
That's
where all the rest of scholarship starts, Garion. All the books in the world
won't help you if they're just piled up in a heap.”
―
David Eddings, King of the Murgos
“Because
that's what Hermione does,' said Ron, shrugging. 'When in doubt, go to the
library.”
―
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
“The
library is the worst group of people ever assembled in history. They're mean,
conniving, rude, and extremely well-read, which makes them dangerous.”
―
Leslie Knope
“When
I tell people I went to library school, the most common reaction is either
“You’re joking, right?” or “They have schools for librarians? Do they teach you
how to properly sssh people?”
―
Scott Douglas
“She
read paperbacks too, one after the next like she was chain-smoking—romance,
science fiction, old pulp fantasy. All she wanted to do was sit, unbothered in
a circle of lamplight, and live someone else’s life.”
―
Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent
“They
say that Caliph Omar, when consulted about what had to be done with the library
of Alexandria, answered as follows: 'If the books of this library contain
matters opposed to the Koran, they are bad and must be burned. If they contain
only the doctrine of the Koran, burn them anyway, for they are superfluous.'
Our learned men have cited this reasoning as the height of absurdity. However,
suppose Gregory the Great was there instead of Omar and the Gospel instead of
the Koran. The library would still have been burned, and that might well have
been the finest moment in the life of this illustrious pontiff.”
―
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Sciences and Arts and Polemics
“In
my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the
realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of
becoming a librarian. ”
―
Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
“The
library is like a candy store where everything is free.”
―
Jamie Ford, Songs of Willow Frost
“I
cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these."
-
Mr. Darcy”
―
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Persuasion
“We
can imagine the books we'd like to read, even if they have not yet been
written, and we can imagine libraries full of books we would like to possess,
even if they are well beyond our reach, because we enjoy dreaming up a library
that reflects every one of our interests and every one of our foibles--a
library that, in its variety and complexity, fully reflects the reader we are.”
―
Alberto Manguel
“Some
say they get lost in books, but I find myself, again and again, in the pages of
a good book. Humanly speaking, there is no greater teacher, no greater
therapist, no greater healer of the soul, than a well-stocked library.”
―
L.R.Knost
“You
can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the
teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don’t. They have
prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like
Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all
time. A lot of the people whose work they’ve taught in the schools for the last
thirty years, I can’t understand why people read them and why they are taught.
The library, on the other hand, has no biases. The information is all there for
you to interpret. You don’t have someone telling you what to think. You
discover it for yourself.”
―
Ray Bradbury
“What
I saw next stopped me dead in my tracks. Books. Not just one or two dozen, but
hundreds of them. In crates. In piles on the floor. In bookcases that stretched
from floor to ceiling and lined the entire room. I turned around and around in
a slow circle, feeling as if I'd just stumbled into Ali Baba's cave. I was
breathless, close to tears, and positively dizzy with greed.”
―
Jennifer Donnelly, A Northern Light
“Now
take my hand and hold it tight.
I
will not fail you here tonight,
For
failing you, I fail myself
And
place my soul upon a shelf
In
Hell's library without light.
I
will not fail you here tonight.”
―
Dean Koontz, The Book of Counted Sorrows
“The
love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned. ”
―
Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
“The
secret of a good librarian is that he never reads anything more of the
literature in his charge than the title and the table of contents. Anyone who
lets himself go and starts reading a book is lost as a librarian...He's bound
to lose perspective.”
―
Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities
“You
will never find me in trouble. You will find me in the library. If you can
remember where that is.”
