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Library Quotes (page 19)

Victor Hugo quote: "A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in..."
A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn. Victor Hugo
No one will write books once they reach heaven, but there is an excellent library, containing all the books written up to date, including all the lost books and the ones that the authors burned when they came back from the last publisher. Evelyn Waugh
Important thing is not the me that's lying here, but the me that's sitting on the edge of the bed looking back at me, and the me that's downstairs cooking supper, or out in the garage under the car, or in the library reading. All the new parts, they count. I'm not really dying today. No person ever died that had a family. Ray Bradbury
I called a cab, still in my towel. I jumped in the cab before it had even stopped at the gate. I actually said, "The nearest library with a cutting-edge professional grief- and trauma-therapy section, and step on it. David Foster Wallace
A first-rate college library with a comfortable campus around it is a fine milieu for a writer. There is, of course, the problem of educating the young. I remember how once, between terms, not at Cornell, a student brought a transistor set with him into the reading room. He managed to state that one, he was playing “classical” music; that two, he was doing it “softly”; and that three, “there were not many readers around in summer.” I was there, a one-man multitude. Vladimir Nabokov
Stephen King quote: "When all else fails, give up and go to the library."
When all else fails, give up and go to the library. Stephen King
Anita Brookner quote: "Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at..."
Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed. Anita Brookner
Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent from reading? Ayn Rand
The Bibliotheque du Roi then gives you the closest thing that currently exists to God's understanding of the world."And yet with a bigger library we could come ever so much closer. Neal Stephenson
(about organizing books in his home library, and putting a book in the "Arts and Lit non-fiction section)I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey. Nick Hornby
Terry Prachett quote: "I know that I am a small, weak man, but I have amassed a large..."
I know that I am a small, weak man, but I have amassed a large library; I dream of dangerous places. Terry Prachett
The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice of repetitions and commentaries; it is born and takes shape in the interval between books. It is the phenomena of the library. Michel Foucault
I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows. Roger Zelazny
Isabel Allende quote: "The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages..."
The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night. Isabel Allende
Reading is performance. The reader-- the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the library desk-- performs the work. The performance is silent. The readers hear the sounds of the words and the beat of the sentences only in their inner ear. Silent drummers on noiseless drums. An amazing performance in an amazing theater. Ursula K. Le Guin

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