476 Quotes About Libraries

Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.

Libraries are not facing crisis, they are in crisis.

There's so much proscription in the lives of young people, and it's so vital to have a place that says, look, here are the doors onto the world and amazingly, you're free to choose any one you like. - Patrick Ness on Libraries

The library is the worst group of people ever assembled in history. They're mean, conniving, rude, and extremely well-read, which makes them dangerous.

You poor girl, what sort of aged, unfriendly Libraries have you met in short life? A silent Library is a sad Library ... A Library should be full of exclamations! ... A Library should be full of now-just-a-minutes and that-can't-be-rights and scientifick folk running skelter to prove somebody wrong... A Library should not shush ; it should roar !

Books are more than words, they’re dreams, ideas, and answers, and that is why they fear them

He believed in books, more than in people, because everything was discoverable within the pages. Read and think, and one could understand.

The boy was a model pupil, forgettable and easily forgotten, and he sent much of his spare time in the back of the English class where there were shelves of old paperbacks, and in the school library, a large room filled with books and old armchairs, where he read stories as enthusiastically as some children ate.

The library became the cathedral where I would come to worship amd the stories were as precious to me as prayers.