Is there anything so delicious as the first exploration of a great library - alone - unwatched?
Richard Jefferies
Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly... →
Thomas Jefferson
Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
Lady Bird Johnson
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
Samuel Johnson
How precious a book is in light of the offering, in the light of the one who has the privilege of this offering. The library tells you of this... →
Louis Kahn
I have always been an obsessive reader - I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books taller than I was.
Lisa Kleypas
But it's the particularity of a place, the physical experience of being in a place, that makes it onto the page. That's why I don't just... →
Hari Kunzru
I want all my stuff to be converted into digital format so I can have my reference library to carry with me wherever I go.
Jim Lee
I was obsessed with George Orwell for years. I remember going to the town library and having to put in interlibrary loan requests to get the... →
Jill Lepore
Wherever modern translations of marked excellence were already in existence efforts were made to secure them for the Library, but in a number of... →
James Loeb