Library Quotes
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I ransack public libraries & find them full of sunk treasure.
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My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve.
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You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life.
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Books were not looked upon as things unobtainable due to economic circumstances or class status. My grandfather stole an entire set of Dicken's from the local library.
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Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a chateau does to its owner.
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I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books and read a paragraph and say, 'My God, did I write that?
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An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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But with the library, it's like catnip, I suppose: you begin to run in circles because there's so much to look at and read.
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A deserted library in the morning - there's something about it that really gets to me. All possible words and ideas are there, resting peacefully.
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I spent my life in the library reading books.
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... I find myself coming out of the library with all women writers. I keep hoping the library attendant won't notice, but when 8 out of 8 of the books you take out are by women, you try not to look too dykey.
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I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer.
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When I go to a premiere I like to borrow lovely clothes and shoes from designers. It's like the library: if you return them in good condition, you get to borrow more. I'm very lucky.
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I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning.
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In my spare time I didn’t go out, I sat and read novels I got from the library: Grazia Deledda, Pirandello, Chekhov, Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky.
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Public libraries are the sole community centers left in America. The degree to which a branch of the local library is connected to the larger culture is a reflection of the degree to which the community itself is connected to the larger culture.
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The first time I walked into a library, I got so excited I almost wet my pants.
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To make a library It takes two volumes And a fire. Two volumes and a fire, And interest. The interest alone will do If logs are few.
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It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement.
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I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.
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Flirtation is a circulating library, in which we seldom ask twice for the same volume.
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What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what's real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.
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You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films.
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A library is never complete. That’s the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to our collection.
