This place is a mystery. A sanctuary. Every book, every volume you see, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it
Carlos Ruiz ZafónFrom fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story.
Alberto ManguelTags: libraries reading books stories
About the library," he whispered. He took out the pencil stub from his pocket and poised it over the page.
"Will you write like Mr. Blake or like yourself?" I inquired.
He wrote and whispered the words aloud as he did. "I am in the library. It smells like old stuff."
"It smells familiar," I suggested. "It smells like words." Because his left side was to me, I couldn't easily take his hand to write.
"Books are boring," James said as he wrote.
"They line the walls like a thousand leather doorways to be opened into worlds unknown," I offered.
He thought about this and then wrote with a smile, "I hate books.
Tags: libraries ghosts young-adult-fiction
Libraries raised me.
Ray BradburyTags: libraries reading books library
I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.
Ray BradburyTags: libraries education self-education
Her library is a meeting place for all who love books. They discuss matters of the world and matters of the spirit.
Jeanette WinterTags: libraries
(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.
Tags: libraries home games organization
...it's appalling to remember that the entire Oxford University Library was sold for scrap in the mid-1500s. Nor was that situation unique to Oxford, as libraries were deconstructed throughout the land.
Owen GingerichTags: libraries
The old man was peering intently at the shelves. 'I'll have to admit that he's a very competent scholar.'
Isn't he just a librarian?' Garion asked, 'somebody who looks after books?'
That's where all the rest of scholarship starts, Garion. All the books in the world won't help you if they're just piled up in a heap.
Tags: libraries books school scholarship librarians library scholar
Who’s to say what a ‘literary life’ is? As long as you are writing often, and writing well, you don’t need to be hanging-out in libraries all the time.
Nightclubs are great literary research centers. So is Ibiza!
Tags: libraries writing writers work literature creativity literary research lifestyle studying ibiza literary-life nightclubs partying writing-style
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