Quotes of: Library-book Keyword

She was brilliant and joyous and she believed- probably correctly- that libraries contain the answers to all things, to everything, and that if you can't find the information you seek in the library, then such information probably doesn't exist in th...

Mudshark

About the library," he whispered. He took out the pencil stub from his pocket and poised it over the page. "Will you write like Mr. Blake or like yourself?" I inquired. He wrote and whispered the words aloud as he did. "I am in the library. It smells...

A Certain Slant of Light

Our library isn't very extensive," said Anne, "but every book in it is a friend. We've picked our books up through the years, here and there, never buying one until we had first read it and knew that it belonged to the race of Joseph.

Anne's House of Dreams

You see? I know where every single book used to be in the library.' She pointed to the shelf opposite. 'Over there was , which was a hugely popular fishing book and one of a series, I believe.

Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron

As a kid, I lived almost entirely inside books, and eventually the books started returning the favor. A lot of my internal world feels like an anthology, or a library. It's eclectic and disorganized, but I can browse in it, and that hugely shapes bot...

Kathryn Schulz

Libraries are the future of reading. When the economy is down, we need to make it easier for people to buy and read books for free, not harder. It is stupid to sacrifice tomorrow’s book buyers for today’s dollars, especially when it’s obvious t...

Courtney Milan

One, I have a wonderful publisher, Black Sparrow Press; as long as they exist, they will keep me in print. And they claim they sell very respectable numbers of my books, so I guess, and it's true, every place I go, my books are in libraries and on bo...

Diane Wakoski

Currently, the Library of Congress houses eighteen million books. American publishers add another two hundred thousand titles to this stack each year. This means that at the current publishing rate, ten million new books will be added in the next fif...

Lit!: A Christian Guide to Reading Books

As a kid, I would get my parents to drop me off at my local library on their way to work during the summer holidays, and I would walk home at night. For several years, I read the children's library until I finished the children's library. Then I move...

Neil Gaiman

Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among themselves. In the light of this reflection, the library seemed a...

The Name of the Rose

The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries.

The Library of Babel

The Library is a sphere whose exact centre is any one of its hexagons and whose circumference is inaccessible.

The Library of Babel

If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be.

The Library at Night

The weight of absence is as much a feature of any library as the constriction of order and space.

The Library at Night

Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.

The Library at Night

It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we've seen with the Internet's development.

Noam Chomsky

Have you never picked up a book you've read before, and found it speaks to you in a new way?

The Forbidden Library

Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.

Autobio Cecil B DeMille

A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.

Horseradish

Come with me,' Mom says. To the library. Books and summertime go together.

I Heart You, You Haunt Me

Everybody comes to the library naked. That's why they come here - to dress themselves in books.

The Rabbit Back Literature Society