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In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.


Mark Twain


#books #libraries #wisdom #wisdom

Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children’s librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You like the jelly doughnut? I’ll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller, too. My cruller is gonna blow your mind, kid.


John Green


#books #donuts #librarians #simile #kids

Every reader his or her book. Every book its reader.


S.R. Ranganathan


#libraries #librarians

Not me, of course, as I am now officially a spinster librarian and must stay home with my cat and drink tea.


Eleanor Brown


#librarians

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.


Jane Austen


#library #reading #read

A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.


Lemony Snicket


#reading #read

[D]on't ever apologize to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologize to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read...


Neil Gaiman


#libraries #library #reading #read

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


Joan Bauer


#library #stupidity

Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on.


Siri Hustvedt


#languor #libraries #sexuality #dreams

Libraries were full of ideas–perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.


Sarah J. Maas


#libraries #sarah-j-maas #throne-of-glass #idea