825 Quotes About Library

He wandered off into the stacks, pulling a book here and there, looking at it, putting it back. Choosing books was serious business. You had to be careful. If you were a grownup you could have as many as you wanted, but kids could only take out three at a time. If you picked a dud, you were stuck with it.

At the time, the library's fire prevention consisted of smoke detectors and handheld fire extinguishers. There were no sprinklers. The American Library Association, known informally as the ALA, always advised against sprinklers, because water damage was even worse for books than fire damage.

He sat there studiously bent over his work (Bill saw him), which lay in a slant of crisp white winterlight, his face sober and absorbed, knowing that to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of eternity’s engine.

...There are almost as many kinds of libraries as there are kinds of readers.

In the World According to Celine and Pete the very best part of every town was the library.

The books in the library were old, rotted, and there was no one left in the world to read them, but Kira made sure that none of them went into the fire. It seemed wrong.

Library is not a museum or zoo, it is the temple of knowledge and religion of wisdom

Life consists of books. All experiences are stories to be told and must be written.

Why is everyone always trying to take money away from libraries? Aren’t books sort of the reason we’re even in school at all?