825 Quotes About Library

And every book, you find, has its own social group--friends of its own it wants to introduce you to, like a party in the library that need never, ever end.

If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up.

Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers.

In a few minutes I heard the books' voices: a low, steady, unsupressible hum. I'd heard it many times before. I've always had a finely tuned ear for a library's accumulations of echo and desire. Libraries are anything but hushed.

I wanted a library like this...[] A cave of words that I'd made myself.

His library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore.

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait."(About Books; Recoiling, Rereading, Retelling, New York Times, February 22, 1987)

The room is warm and smells like dust, and just the presence of so many books makes it easier to breathe. It’s remarkable how being around books, even those you’ve never read, can have a calming effect, like walking into a crowded party and finding it full of people you know.

Libraries are not made; they grow. Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.