Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read.
But a reader's ambition knows no bounds.
Time never existed, time will never exist, for time is existing
The public library is where place and possibility meet.
A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.
Libraries are not made; they grow. Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.
Libraries, whether my own or shared with a greater reading public, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can remember I've been seduced by their labyrinthine logic, which suggests that reason (if not art) rules over a c...
A library should fill our leisure with adventure. It is a refuge from the commonplace and the dull, a sanctuary where all the trials, the tribulations, and the boredoms of the outer world are forbidden and where such an evil thing as a tax-collector ...
I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I'll ...
Libraries are the mainstays of democracy. The first thing dictators do when taking over a country is close all the libraries, because libraries are full of ideas and differences of opinion, all the things we say we want in a free and open society. So...
Books have long been instruments of the divinatory arts.
But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library.
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.
If the library's rarest frequenters are the ones we'd like to see in them the most, then libraries are failing.
Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted.
Libraries Are Neccessary Gardens, Unsurpassed At Growing Excitement
An actress spends a lifetime observing people. You build up a mental library. No, not a library. Make that a repository.
Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.
Society was the only threat to the sanctity of selfhood: an unpatroned library was an orderly library.
One of the many reasons I love libraries. Everyone is lost and not wanting to be found in a library.
Please bury me in the library With a dozen long-stemmed proses
