#libraries

We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of this memory is called the library ↗

— Carl Sagan

#communal-memory #humanity #humanity-and-society #humans #libraries

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

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

— S.R. Ranganathan

#libraries #librarians

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

To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#libraries #library

Libraries are our friends. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#library

She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#library

What in the world would we do without our libraries? ↗

— Katharine Hepburn

#library #library