A library is an ever-growing entity; it multiples seemingly unaided, it reproduces itself by purchase, theft, borrowings, gifts, by suggesting gaps through association, by demanding completion of sorts.

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

Because that’s what Hermione does,’ said Ron, shrugging. ‘When in doubt, go to the library.

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

A little library, growing larger every year, is an honourable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of...

Some people would say it’s a bad idea to bring a fire-spider into a public library. Those people would probably be right, but it was better than leaving him alone in the house for nine...

Sam hauled open the library door.”There you are!” Whit pushed up from the desk he’d been hunched over. “We thought you two had given up on us.””Unlike some people I know,” I said, removing my...

I always say, ‘Books beat boredom,’ said Amanda wisely.

Public libraries are the sole community centers left in America. The degree to which a branch of the local library is connected to the larger culture is a reflection of the degree to which the...

In the wide pile, by others heeded not,Hers was one sacred solitary spot,Whose gloomy aisles and bending shelves containFor moral hunger food, and cures for moral pain.

I’m a library user and I just don’t hoard books. To me, they’re for sharing.

A library is such a potent symbol of a town’s values: each one closed down might as well be six thousand stickers plastered over every available surface, reading “WE CHOSE TO BECOME MORE STUPID AND...

That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.

Is that what those were?” Gerry blithely replied.

There’s a vast fraternity of record collectors, and the record store was their hub. There was not a lot of information on these groups or the labels so you’d gather [there] and it would be...

I had a dream about you. We were two lovers disguised as librarians. We met in the non-fiction section, and that’s the truth. Or at least that’s what we told your parents. They didn’t need...

Spray a book with insect spray, drop it in a bag, add some mothballs and seal it. Put it in another bag and seal it. Another. The packages piled up on the floor, each a...

My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn’t have any excuse to be stupid.

Every library should try to complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

Some people write letters, in the library.

INTERVIEWERYou’re self-educated, aren’t you?BRADBURYYes, I am. I’m completely library educated. I’ve never been to college. I went down to the library when I was in grade school in Waukegan, and in high school in Los...

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man

he’ll expect to find us exactly where he left us, never mind how much his life has changed in the meantime.

Libraries, whether my own or shared with a greater reading public, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can remember I’ve been seduced by their labyrinthine logic, which...

Isabel is looking at several collections of research journals. ‘She would understand the issues if she chose to open one of the volumes, but she knew that there were conversations within which she would never...

They spent pork-barrel money like a tidal-wave sea, but no funds trickled down far enough to reach me. Our books numbered few and were falling apart, and I sat mending pages with a crestfallen heart.

I stubbed my toe just as someone dropped a book into the inside drop box. As I yelped and howled in pain, a child on the other side said, ‘Mommy, I think we hurt the...

The library made me feel safe, as if every question had an answer and there was nothing to be afraid of, as long as I could sort through another volume.

It was four o’clock of a stickily wet Saturday. As long as it is anything from Monday to Friday the average library attendant goes around thanking her stars she isn’t a school-teacher; but the last...

Though I loved the wired world, the new-wave librarians, the avatars and activists, I turned into a dinosaur in that library. I couldn’t help it; I was an old-fashioned writer who loved the ancient books...

What I saw next stopped me dead in my tracks. Books. Not just one or two dozen, but hundreds of them. In crates. In piles on the floor. In bookcases that stretched from floor to...

If books were girls and reading was s-ss-ssss-fucking, this would be the biggest whorehouse in the county and I’d be the most ruthless pimp you ever met. Whap the girls on the butts and send...

Up steps, three, six, nine, twelve! Slap! Their palms hit the library door. * * * They opened the door and stepped in.They stopped.The library deeps lay waiting for them.Out in the world, not much...

Perhaps, Katrine, in a library just like this one, you will find that all the things you thought were impossible and all the things that everyone, throughout history, have thought were impossible are not really...

During the day, the library is a realm of order.

As for reading, I wish I had a magic door to a library where I could go in, read for days and days, and come back in the same minute I left. I’m still looking...

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...

The library is like a candy store where everything is free.

I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these.”- Mr. Darcy

Sunny held Kit, and Violet held Klaus, and for a minute the four castaways did nothing but weep, letting their tears run down their faces and into the sea, which some have said is nothing...

All I wanted to do was go back inside to the library and read a book.I used to spend all my time reading books, or watching television. It was safe. Nobody ever was hurt or...

Collect books, even if you don’t plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.

An appetite for knowledge is apt to rush one off one’s feet, like any other appetite if not curbed. I often stand in the in the centre of the Library here and think despairingly how...

John Armato, a Public relations executive, cherishes his growing Library of Candidates. When people ask him if he’s actually read all those books, he asks them if they’ve actually eaten all the food in their...

All that is necessary for a student is access to a library.

I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I’ll still be with my books.

Anyone who thinks this world is without magic, hasn’t been to a library.

A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants: demagogues can persecute writers and tell them what to write as much as they...

I was born, and then I was quietly resentful of that fact for a few years…but then I went to a library and it was okay.

What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.