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“You cannot have a really terrific library without at least one terrific librarian, the way you cannot have a really terrific bedroom unless you can lock the door.”
― Lemony Snicket, Shouldn't You Be in School?

“I wished I could take her to the library and hand her over to the librarians. Please teach her about everything, I'd say.”
― A.S. King, Glory O'Brien's History of the Future

“All Librarians are Secret Masters of Severe Magic. Goes with the territory.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two

“[I]n spite of her work as a reference librarian, she discovered that life isn't about knowing all the answers. The best we can do is make peace with our questions, learn who we are, know our strengths, and do the best we can with the gifts we've been given while we're here.”
― Kate Messner, All the Answers

“We have the librarians on our side. We have *justice* on our side.”
― Polly Shulman

“Don’t be maudlin. You’re a librarian, for God’s sake. Toughen up.”
― Victoria Dahl

“I could no longer pull wands, potions, and light sabers out of books, but when it came to research, give me a well-stocked library and I was a goddamned Merlin.”
― Jim C. Hines, Unbound

“Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madams, greeting punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and pimping their books.”
― Guy Browning

“I have always imagined that paradise will be some kind of library. - Jorge Luis Borges, “Poems of the Gifts”
― Tatyana Eckstrand

“Blaming the library for exposure to pornography is like blaming the lake if your child walks up to it alone, falls in and then drowns. â€� David Sawyer, Spokesman-Review, 18 December 2000”
― Tatyana Eckstrand

“I deserve a swift kick in the shorts for all the times I’ve stubbornly wound my way through the library stacks, my mule head leading the way, searching fruitlessly for information a librarian could put in my hands in a matter of minutes. â€� Michael Perry, Handbook for Freelance Writing”
― Tatyana Eckstrand

“A Book Keeper! Gods of the word, they are. Finest of the brave. You know, it's them that keep books, (he says) that know things in the end.”
― Simon P. Clark, Eren

“Librarians' values are as sound as Girl Scouts': truth, free speech, and universal literacy. And, like Scouts, they possess a quality that I think makes librarians invaluable and indispensable: they want to help. They want to help us. They want to be of service. And they're not trying to sell us anything.”
― Marilyn Johnson, This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All

“So where does one go in such a wobbly, elusive, dynamic, confusing age? Wherever the librarians and archivists are.

They’re sorting it all out for us.”
― Marilyn Johnson, This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All

“Of course. Ask your librarian. Always the right answer.”
― Marilyn Johnson, This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All

“That night, Hallie was relieved when Linda Soares, the town librarian who'd spent years trying to impress Nick with her low-cut shirts and book recommendations, joined them for dinner.”
― Patry Francis, The Orphans of Race Point

“It is possible that librarians will be robots, controlled by Master Minds having mastery of a master computer at the Library of Congress.
Or there will be no libraries and librarians, flesh-and-blood or otherwise. The onetime library patron will press a button and turn a dial on his TV, whereupon the requested book, in the desired language, will appear on the screen, the pages turning at the designated speed.”
― Richard Armour

“She's so beautiful. She lectures a lot, like her father, but she's really beautiful.”
― Diana Zimmerman, Kandide: The Lady's Revenge

“A Book Keeper! Gods of the word, they are. Finest of the brave. You know, it's them that keep books, (he says) that know things in the end.”
― Simon P

“I became interested in librarians while researching my first book, about obituaries. With the exception of a few showy eccentrics, like the former soldier in Hitler's army who had a sex change and took up professional whistling, the most engaging obit subjects were librarians. An obituary of a librarian could be about anything under the sun, a woman with a phenomenal memory, who recalled the books her aging patrons read as children—and was also, incidentally, the best sailor on her stretch of the Maine coast—or a man obsessed with maps, who helped automate the Library of Congress's map catalog and paved the way for wonders like Google Maps.”
― Marilyn Johnson, This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All

“So when I hear this snarky question (and I hear it everywhere): Are librarians obsolete in the Age of Google? all I can say is, are you kidding? Librarians are more important than ever. Google and Yahoo! and Bing and WolframAlpha can help you find answers to your questions, sometimes brilliantly; but if you don't know how to phrase those questions, no search engine can help provide the answers.”
― Marilyn Johnson, This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All

“That's how librarians are. They just can't help it.”
― Carla Morris

“Come tutte le biblioteche, era chiusa al pubblica e sottoposta all’amministrazione centrale tedesca, ma conservava il vecchio personale, il quale, pur avendo stipendi da fame, rimaneva al proprio posto per un patriottismo aziendale â€� i bibliotecari d’altronde costituiscono una razza speciale, capace di nutrirsi del solo amore per i propri libri.”
― CzesÅ‚aw MiÅ‚osz, Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition

“Having read literally thousands of them, I was sure I knew every which way of killing someone. I never thought a time would come when I would make use of it.”
― Mary Lou Kirwin

“In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us how to swim. â€� Linton Weeks, Washington Post, 13 January 2001”
― Tatyana Eckstrand, The Librarian's Book of Quotes

“A library is a place to go for a reality check, a bracing dose of literature, or a "true reflection of our history," whether it's a brick-and-mortar building constructed a century ago or a fanciful arrangement of computer codes. The librarian is the organizer, the animating spirit behind it, and the navigator. Her job is to create order out of the confusion of the past, even as she enables us to blast into the future.”
― Marilyn Johnson, This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All

“Librarians are on the front lines of an invisible struggle over our information diet and, for better or worse, the scales are not tipping in their direction.”
― Peter Morville, Ambient Findability: What We Find Changes Who We Become

“On a good day, my style is librarian chic. On a bad day, it's frumpy mother.”
― Cassandra Page

“Some are born to greatness; some achieve greatness; some have greatness thrust upon them.' It is in this way that the librarian has become a censor of literature... books that distinctly commend what is wrong, that teach how to sin and how pleasant sin is, sometimes with and sometimes without the added sauce of impropriety, are increasingly popular, tempting to the author to imitate them, the publishers to produce, the bookseller to exploit. Thank heaven they do not tempt the librarian.”
― Arthur E. Bostwick

“One can never have too many librarian friends.”
― Jennifer Chiaverini, The Wedding Quilt