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“I am a librarian. I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Before I fell in love with libraries, I was just a six-year-old boy. The library fueled all of my curiosities, from dinosaurs to ancient Egypt. When I graduated from high school in 1938, I began going to the library three nights a week. I did this every week for almost ten years and finally, in 1947, around the time I got married, I figured I was done. So I graduated from the library when I was twenty-seven. I discovered that the library is the real school.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Cutting libraries during a recession is like cutting hospitals during a plague.”
― Eleanor Crumblehulme library assistant University of British Columbia

“Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.”
― Patrick Ness

“I’m completely library educated. I’ve never been to college. I went down to the library when I was in grade school in Waukegan, and in high school in Los Angeles, and spent long days every summer in the library. I used to steal magazines from a store on Genesee Street, in Waukegan, and read them and then steal them back on the racks again. That way I took the print off with my eyeballs and stayed honest. I didn’t want to be a permanent thief, and I was very careful to wash my hands before I read them. 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. And it’s far more fun than going to school, simply because you make up your own list and you don’t have to listen to anyone. When I would see some of the books my kids were forced to bring home and read by some of their teachers, and were graded on—well, what if you don’t like those books?”
― Ray Bradbury

“Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom. No libraries, no progress.”
― Willard Scott

“Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.”
― Cecil B. DeMille, The Autobiography of Cecil B. Demille

“‎The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Of all the places I have walked into, libraries must be the most magical. Have you ever opened the cover of a book and wondered what you would find inside? Where you would go? Whom you would meet? A story has the power to send you back in time or into the future, to transport you to other lands and kingdoms. I’ve met ogres, talking rabbits, and some of my best friends in the pages of books.
Librarians might just have the best jobs ever. With each library card they hand out, they offer a ticket to strange and marvelous worlds. Open a book and, like Reading Beauty, you might fall under a spell—the magic of a deep read. But chances are, unlike the Sleeping Beauty of the original fairy tale, you will never want the spell to be broken.”
― Kimberly Long Cockroft, Reading Beauty

“Ah college years, those were the days. Pure freedom ... leaving home for the first time…the parties…��
"What about the tutorials, the lectures, the large building with all the books called the ‘library��?��
“Is that what those were?�� Gerry blithely replied.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

“My mother lived alone in the ruins of the great Library, which was called Compleat, and a very passionate and dashing Library indeed. Under the slightly blackened rafters and more than slightly caved-in walls, my mother lived and read and dreamed, allowing herself to grow closer and closer to Compleat, to notice more and more how fine and straight his shelves remained, despite great structural stress. That sort of moral fortitude is rare in this day and age. By and by, my siblings and I were born and romped on the balconies, raced up and down the splintered ladders, and pored over many encyclopedias and exciting novels. I know just everything about everything—so long as it beings with A through L.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

“Libraries
Are
Neccessary
Gardens,
Unsurpassed
At
Growing
Excitement”
― J. Patrick Lewis, Please Bury Me in the Library

“Her library is a meeting place for all who love books. They discuss matters of the world and matters of the spirit.”
― Jeanette Winter, The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq

“Browsing through the shelves in bookstores or libraries, I was completely happy.”
― Louis L'Amour, Education of a Wandering Man: A Memoir

“But the central branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library was still a place of wonders to Tess, even if the book budget had been slashed and the hours cut. Her parents had made a lot of mistakes, a fact Tess compulsively shared on first dates, but she gave them credit for doing one thing right: Starting when she was eight, they gave her a library card and dropped her off at the downtown Pratt every Saturday while they shopped. Twenty-one years later, Tess still entered through the children's entrance on the side, pausing to toss a penny in the algae-coated fish pond, then climbing the stairs to the main hall. If she could be married here, she would.”
― Laura Lippman, Baltimore Blues

“Libraries have always been there for me. Of course I'll stand up for them.”
― Marilyn Johnson

“Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on.”
― Siri Hustvedt, The Summer Without Men

“...I am still librarian in your house, for I never was dismissed, and never gave up the office. Now I am librarian here as well.'

'But you have just told me you were sexton here!'

'So I am. It is much the same profession. Except you are a true sexton, books are but dead bodies to you, and a library nothing but a catacomb!”
― George MacDonald, Lilith

“The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one's devotion to the bound book is expressed in ritual. A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.
�� Cited in ALA Bulletin, Oct. 1954, p.475”
― Norman Cousins

“I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt,
If one be better with them or without,
Unless he use them wisely, and, indeed,
Knows the high art of what and how to read.”
― John Godfrey Saxe

“You could never be certain what you would find in a book that had spent time with someone else.”
― Erica Bauermeister

“It’s always the end of the world,�� said Russell Grandinetti, one of Amazon’s top executives. “You could set your watch on it arriving.�� He pointed out, though, that the landscape was in some ways changing for the first time since Gutenberg invented the modern book nearly 600 years ago. “The only really necessary people in the publishing process now are the writer and reader,�� he said. “Everyone who stands between those two has both risk and opportunity.�� Amazon Signs Up Authors, Writing Publishers Out of Deal. New York Times, 10/16/2011”
― Russell Grandinetti

“Usually, I set one foot in a library and I feel my own internal volume lower. A library is a physical equivalent of a sigh. It’s the silence, sure, but it’s also the certainty of all those books, the way they stand side by side with their still, calm conviction. It’s the reassurance of knowledge in the face of confusion.”
― Deb Caletti, The Last Forever

“The weight of absence is as much a feature of any library as the constriction of order and space.”
― Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night

“I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey.”
― Nick Hornby, The Polysyllabic Spree

“Libraries are not facing crisis, they are in crisis.”
― Patrick Ness

“Books you have read share a deep ontological similarity with books you haven't: both can be profoundly fuzzy. At times books you haven't read shine more brightly than those you have, and often reading part of a book will shape your mind more decisively than reading all of it; there is no inherent epistemic superiority to having read a book or not having read it.”
― john durham peters, The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media

“Οι άνθρωποι μπορούν να χάσουν τις ζωές τους στις βιβλιοθήκες. Θα πρέπει να προειδοποιούνται.”
― Saul Bellow

“... all frail sufferers from the same disease that affected me, all ailing bibliomanes being treated for addiction, as in a literary methadone clinic...”
― John Banville, Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir

“Libraries are medieval forests masking opportunity and danger; every aisle is a path, every catalog reference a clue to the location of the Holy Grail. It is here that I become privy to the sacred songs of kings and the ballads of rogues. Here are tales of life-and-death struggles of other wayfarers as they battle personal dragons and woo fair maidens. Walking down this hallway, I am a knight entering the forest in search of the truth...”
― Jack Cavanaugh, A Hideous Beauty

“The library at Madingley Grange was rarely used. The pristine books in their diamond-paned cases seemed never to have been sullied by anything so coarse as the perusal of the human eye.”
― Caroline Graham, Murder At Madingley Grange