Quotes of: Library-book Keyword

I loved going to the library. It was the first time I ever saw Black newspapers and magazines like JET, Ebony, the Baltimore Afro-American, or the Chicago Defender. And I’ll never forget my librarian.

March: Book One

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

I once stole a book. It was really just the once, and at the time I called it borrowing. It was 1970, and the book, I could see by its lack of date stamps, had been lying unappreciated on the shelves of my convent school library since its publication...

Hilary Mantel

If the library in the morning suggests an echo of the severe and reasonable wishful order of the world, the library at night seems to rejoice in the world's essential, joyful muddle.

The Library at Night

An even more pointed example of the the power of the silence tabu in libraries occurred in Duluth in 1981. The police were pursuing a fugitive from justice who ran into the public library. Uniformed police surrounded the building, and the library dir...

Forbidden Fruits: Taboos and Tabooism in Culture

No one stepping for the first time into a room made of books can know instinctively how to behave, what is expected, what is promised, what is allowed. One may be overcome by horror--at the cluster or the vastness, the stillness, the mocking reminder...

The Library at Night

Know something about the world, and by this I mean the world outside of books. This might require joining the Marines, or working on an oil rig or as a hash slinger at a truck stop in Kentucky. Know what it smells like out there. If everything you wr...

Wordsmithy: Hot Tips for the Writing Life

If peace had a smell,it would be the smell of a library full of old, leather-bound books.

The Bookseller

This is unbearable ... God. These books she'll never read. Her Life's Library.

Looking for Alaska

Ereaders were a great convenience, but nothing could beat the smell of a library and old books.

Taste

When I was a student I spent a lot of time in the library. That's where the books and smart girls were.

Mike Bove

I know exactly what I would do with immortality: I would read every book in the library.

Mark Jason Dominus

I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.

Jose Saramago

And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.

Cornelia Funke

I don't think if you're serious about literature your library is filled with award-winning books.

Andrew Wylie

I'm a library user and I just don't hoard books. To me, they're for sharing.

Sara Sheridan

In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long.

The Library at Night

At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices.

The Library at Night

During the day, the library is a realm of order.

The Library at Night

Book lovers love books!" her mother announced. "There's romance about the books- even having them seems to have a kind of excitement." from Mr. Linden's Library by Walter Dean Myers

The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: 14 Amazing Authors Tell the Tales

Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some...

Street Haunting