Top 100 Library Reading Quotes
#1. I was in the library reading - getting lost in another world that's not my reality.
Jay McLean
#2. Some of the best memories of my childhood that I have are the times that I played hooky from school so I could spend my days in the public library reading all the wonderful books at my disposal.
Woody Allen
#3. I didn't even enter a bookshop until I was 14 because I couldn't afford books until I got my first Saturday job, but by the time I was six or seven, I spent practically every Saturday down my local library reading as much as I could and getting out as many books as I could.
Malorie Blackman
#4. I spent many hours ensconced in the local library, reading - nay, devouring - book after book after book. Books were my soul's delight.
Nikki Grimes
#6. My stomach is rather content, now that I think about it. 'Tis my mind that is starving.
Hannah Ashworth
#7. If you do not throw in a few promises of better things to come, gloomy one, I am going to take you back to the library.
Mason Cooley
#8. Reading is not work, not a chore, not a drudgery; reading is the most joyful thing, yet, in the world.
James Patterson
#9. I like reading in a pub rather than a library or study, as it's generally much easier to get a drink.
Pete McCarthy
#10. He began reading her eyes more deeply and passionately than the books in the library.
Avijeet Das
#11. Neither would you, had you grown up in a library of melodramatic romance novels.
Clementine Holzinger
#12. I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.
Jane Austen
#13. Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!
(from Tooth and Claw in Season 2)
Russell T. Davies
#14. For 'Boxers & Saints,' I started by reading a couple of articles on the Internet, then writing a really rough outline, then getting more hardcore into the research. I went to a university library once a week for a year, year and a half.
Gene Luen Yang
#15. My mother always kept library books in the house, and one rainy Sunday afternoon - this was before television, and we didn't even have a radio - I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered I was reading and enjoying what I read.
Beverly Cleary
#16. He liked bookstores, and libraries too. They had a sacred, peaceful hush, like graveyards without the shadow of death.
Garrett Leigh
#17. Maybe Heaven will be a library and then I might get to finish my 'to-read' list.
Kellie Elmore
#18. A library, no matter how big or small, is a careful balance of love and responsibility. A machine, if you will, cranked by those who care most about reading.
Kimberly Karalius
#19. Readers transform a library from a mausoleum into many theaters.
Mason Cooley
#20. I asked him what, if anything, got him down about teaching. He said he didn't think that anything about it got him exactly down, but there was one thing, he thought, that frightened him: reading the pencilled notations in the margins of books in the college library.
J.D. Salinger
#21. He pointed the scepter around the library and had an instant input of all of the books that were there into his brain, as if he had read them all at once.
Kaza Kingsley
#23. I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face.
Rodney Dangerfield
#24. Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet.
Sean Wilentz
#25. What is more important to a library than anything else
than everything else
is the fact that it exists.
[The Premise Of Meaning, American Scholar; Washington, DC, June 5, 1972]
Archibald MacLeish
#26. Libraries
Are
Neccessary
Gardens,
Unsurpassed
At
Growing
Excitement
J. Patrick Lewis
#27. The library became the cathedral where I would come to worship amd the stories were as precious to me as prayers.
Anita Anand
#28. On a very personal level, I have fond memories of spending a lot of time in the Library of Congress working on my collection of poems 'Native Guard.' I was there over a summer doing research in the archives and then writing in the reading room at the Jefferson building.
Natasha Trethewey
#29. Heaven would be a comfortable chair, a library, Diet Coke, and an occasional cheese pizza. Sex once in a while. No talking. ~ Drew Stirling
Jayden Hunter
#30. 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 teased or looked stupid while reading books or watching television.
Kathryn Magendie
#31. I have loved this disaster of a library since I was old enough to read.
Eleanor Brown
#32. A great library cannot be constructed; it is the growth of ages.
John Hill Burton
#33. He kissed me for a long moment, holding my shoulders, perhaps to keep me from pressing my whole body against his. Then he tried to lift my bag.
"My God," he said. "What happened?"
"I found out one may check out twenty books at a time from the school library.
Laura Whitcomb
#34. I believe we do well to fall asleep each night with books. We enter the library of our dreams in good company then.
Robert Stephen Parry
#35. From the time I could read, I found solace in my father's library...At the ages of ten and eleven and twelve I would have preferred to remain in the library...
Alice Hoffman
#36. How did I get to be the woman I am today? It started in that library, in the reading club. That's where I started to be my own person.
Anita Diamant
#37. In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.
Jeanette Winterson
#38. With a slow wink, he set the book in Tamaqua's hands. "One of my favorites.
C.J. Milbrandt
#39. Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#40. The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
#41. Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.
William Shakespeare
#42. She sighed and looked at him sympathetically. 'Cool flame tricks aside, there's no competition.'
He lifted his eyebrow. 'Library wins?'
'Every single time.
Elizabeth Hunter
#43. For years I have been coming to this library, and I explore it volume by volume, shelf by shelf, but I could demonstrate to you that I have done nothing but continue the reading of a single book.
Italo Calvino
#44. A library is a hospital for the mind. - Anonymous
Alvin Toffler
#45. I think the closest thing to a time machine that I've ever found is the Children's section of a library.
AnnaMarie Ralph
#46. Reading old Gray? That's right. Physician's library just three books: 'Gray's Anatomy' and Bible and Shakespeare. Study. You may become great doctor.
Sinclair Lewis
#47. Had she read any good books lately? At all? She could tell him that she was going to take out a subscription at the library tomorrow because she was feeling starved of good reading material and could he recommend anything that she might not already have read?
Mary Balogh
#48. For I bless God in the libraries of the learned and for all the booksellers in the world.
Christopher Smart
#49. When my father first took me to Ennis Library I went down among the shelves and felt company, not only the company of writers, but the readers too, because they had lifted and opened and read these books. The books were worn in a way they can only get worn by hands and eyes and minds
Niall Williams
#51. Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading.
Nikola Tesla
#52. There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry.
Rita Dove
#53. There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading.
John Quincy Adams
#54. Seriously?" Spartacus looked amazed. "I thought this looked the same to everyone. We're in a massive library that stretches all the way to the sky. It's beautiful, with oak and teak shelves, gorgeous patterns in the wood, and beautiful books. There's endless amounts to read and look at.
Kaza Kingsley
#55. We are digital archives of the African Pliocene, even of Devonian seas; walking repositories of wisdom out of the old days. You could spend a lifetime reading in this ancient library and die unsated by the wonder of it.
Richard Dawkins
#56. I remember I was in grade school, the fourth grade, in a free reading period in the library. Someone in my class found a copy of the Forbes 400, a list of the richest people in America, and my dad's name was on it.
Jamie Johnson
#57. When we got around to books, I was finally set, as our minister would say, on solid ground. I gorged on books. I sneaked them at night. I rubbed their spines and sniffed in the musty smell of them in the library.
Lorene Cary
#58. I was the kid who read a lot and who was academic, and who was more of an indoor person than an outdoor person. I would win the summer reading contest at the library.
Julianne Moore
#59. It's remarkable that a device, which fits in your pocket, can hold thousands of books. But a room full of books is an entirely different kind of remarkable.
Brandt Legg
#60. Since I could only take six books per visit from the library, I had to time it right, or I'd be stuck on Sundays rereading the five Reader's Digest Condensed Books sitting on our red laquered living room shelf.
Randy Susan Meyers
#62. The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.
Lynda Barry
#63. In his library he had been always sure of leisure and tranquility; and though prepared, as he told Elizabeth, to meet with folly and conceit in every other room in the house, he was used to be free from them there
Jane Austen
#64. 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 suggests that reason (if not art) rules over a cacophonous arrangement of books.
Alberto Manguel
#65. We sat in his library. amidst his beloved books, whose company I knew he would rather seek than that of most of his acquaintances, did they but know it.
Linda Buckley-Archer
#66. Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can hear me, for the sake of better savouring the text, so as to make it all the more mine.
Alberto Manguel
#67. Our house has a library - it seemed better use of the space than as a dining room! - and I try to spend as much time in there as possible. There's nothing better while reading or writing than to be surrounded by books.
Adam Christopher
#68. Once upon a time in a basement library nook,
I stumbled upon my first favorite book.
Pulled into adventure as the pages unfurled,
I found treasures greater than gold or pearls.
Tyrean Martinson
#69. Is anything illegal here?' Addison asked.
'Library late fines are stiff. Ten lashes a day, and that's just for paperbacks.
'There's a library?'
'Two. Though one won't lend because all the books are bound in human skin and quite valuable.
Ransom Riggs
#70. Maybe the one dangerous thing about reading a library's worth of books was the way your imagination got pumped up like a bodybuilder on steroids.
Dean Koontz
#71. OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything.
Gary D. Schmidt
#72. We give scholarships to high school kids and a new library of books to every preschool child in the county where I was born. I didn't have books at home so I did all my reading at school. I love books and I believe that helping kids to read gives them a great start in life.
Dolly Parton
#74. We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.
John Lubbock
#75. For all her faults, it was actually my mom who instilled in me a love of reading, and books, for which I will always be grateful. She's a complete bibliophile, so I've pretty much grown up around libraries and books.
Paula Gruben
#76. If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had more money that I couldn't use, I would hire a professor and get some text books.
Stephen Leacock
#78. Have you been reading those books that clueless illiterate Duja in charge of the lending library lets you borrow?' 'No, Ma.' 'Then what put you in mind of devils possessing nuns to take over the church?
Renita D'Silva
#79. now,
never mind
the boy who came out of that reading room
a new man,
safe in the hope of what was to come
in the summers of his life.
Thabo Jijana
#80. Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
Baron De Montesquieu
#81. ...but there was never enough time to read. The great irony of working in a library.
Jan Louch
#82. When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.
Rita Mae Brown
#83. I got hit by the bug of reading - not via a person, but via the one-room library in our small town. I remember that the children's books were in the right-hand corner near the floor. Often when I went there, I was the only visitor.
Anita Shreve
#84. Jefferson, who spent his life collecting books, many of which he donated to the Library of Congress, boasted that America was the only country whose farmers read Homer. "A native of America who cannot read or write," said John Adams, "is as rare an appearance ... as a Comet or an Earthquake.
Azar Nafisi
#85. I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.
Jose Saramago
#86. After our weekly trip to the library, she cleared the top of her dresser and set out her week's reading, stood them on their ends, pages fanned out, sending little puffs of text into the air.
Eleanor Brown
#87. One day, she ventured to the palace library and was delighted to find what good company books could be.
E. Lockhart
#89. I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#90. A library - a place full of books! Imagine!" Ivy couldn't imagine a place closer to heaven. Think of all the books you could read!
Gemma Jackson
#91. And every book, you find, has its own social group
friends of its own it wants to introduce you to, like a party in the library that need never, ever end.
Caitlin Moran
#92. The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice of repetitions and commentaries; it is born and takes shape in the interval between books. It is the phenomena of the library.
Michel Foucault
#94. Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent from reading?
Ayn Rand
#97. In the meantime, there is not an hour to lose. I am about to visit the public library.
Jules Verne
#98. A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.
Germaine Greer
#100. There are few finer or more innocent pleasures than talking books to one who knows. There may be joy in heaven- I am told there is- but the evidence is not conclusive, and I'll take mine here in my library.
A. Edward Newton
