Quotes About Librarians

#1. A library is a temple unabridged with priceless treasure. Librarians are the majesties who loan the jewels of measure. They welcome to the kingdom the young and old of reapers and reign among the riches as the wondrous fortune keepers.

Pam Munoz Ryan

#2. Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth. These people tolerate every kind of crank and eccentric and mouth breather there is.

Garrison Keillor

#3. Librarians, to Melanie, were somewhat in a par with god
who else could be bothered with, and better yet, know the answers to so many diffrent types of questions? Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not hoard the gift. She taught others how to fknd, where to look, how to see

Jodi Picoult

#4. It was like walking into a treasure trove of books, hoarded by pirate librarians.

Pseudonymous Bosch

#5. Librarians are essential players in the information revolution because they level that field. They enable those without money or education to read and learn the same things as the billionaire and the PhD.

Marilyn Johnson

#6. A good deal of time spent researching this book might well have been wasted and valuable opportunities missed if it had not been for the help and suggestions of archivists and librarians.

Antony Beevor

#7. Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.

Peter Shaffer

#8. I like to imagine that library school was started because of some sort of silly bar bet where a guy got really plastered and told his buddy that he could convince people that librarians needed to be trained in the art of librarianship. Sadly, this is not the case; its roots are a bit more academic.

Scott Douglas

#9. Librarians know books, we live books, we breathe books, we are books.

Jenny Levine

#10. Librarians often are wild in the sack, just like accountants.

Eve Jagger

#11. The trick is to get people to read anything, to engender the love of reading. Once you can read, you can teach yourself anything. Librarians are key, I think. They hold the power to empower.

Jane Cleland

#12. Library Science is the key to all science, just as mathematics is its language - and civilization will rise or fall, depending on how well librarians do their jobs.

Robert A. Heinlein

#13. Jeffrey Makala, the friendly and astute rare-books and special collections librarian who will be my guide, confirms my opinion that librarians, along with independent-bookstore owners and dedicated middle- and high-school teachers, are the most selfless guardians of literature on earth.

Maureen Corrigan

#14. Oh, fierce librarians, then? Tell you to shush and that sort of thing?

Garth Nix

#15. It's an essential fight librarians are making, an age-old fight; yours is a battle for civilization. It's a fight for our country's founding values.

Jim Hightower

#16. But the player librarians all over the country were raving about most was Marjory Muldauer from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. A gangly seventh grader, a foot taller than any of her competitors, Marjory Muldauer had memorized the ten categories of the Dewey decimal system before she entered preschool.

Chris Grabenstein

#17. The type of librarians who are thriving most consistently in the digital era are those who have found a way to operate as a node in a network of libraries and librarians. They are agents of change, actively creating the future instead of constantly reacting to it -

John Palfrey

#18. You don't sound like a librarian," she said.
"I'm on vacation," Jacqueline laughed. "Well, I supposed there is an image, isn't there? But stereotypes are awfully misleading. there are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical. Any more than any other profession.

Elizabeth Peters

#19. The purpose of the Sisterhood of Librarians is to keep the secret of creative juice and keep the idea of libraries alive.

S.A. Tawks

#20. It's still National Library Week. You should be especially nice to a librarian today, or tomorrow. Sometime this week, anyway. Probably the librarians would like tea. Or chocolates. Or a reliable source of funding.

Neil Gaiman

#21. Believers and doers are what we need - faithful librarians who are humble in the presence of books ... To be in a library is one of the purest of all experiences. This awareness of library's unique, even sacred nature, is what should be instilled in our neophites.

Lawrence Clark Powell

#22. If there is a bibliographic equivalent of alcoholism, many librarians have it.

G. Edward Evans

#23. I believe librarians, like English teachers, sit at the right hand of God.

William Deresiewicz

#24. Why was it librarians had such a prim image? With all the information available in books right there at their fingertips, librarians could be the best-informed people around. About anything.

Charlaine Harris

#25. Librarians! Librarians always know how to find out things. That was their job even before the Internet.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

#26. Librarians are notorious snitches - don't let anybody convince you otherwise.

Tom Upton

#27. Librarians understand about power - they know how to find anything.

Joan Bauer

#28. So the librarians at UCLA worked very hard to find another copy of Villacorta's rendition of the Dresden Codex, and lent it to me.

Richard Feynman

#29. Of course it's alright for librarians to smell of drink.

Barbara Pym

#30. Keepers of books, keepers of print and paper on the shelves, librarians are keepers also of the records of the human spiritthe records of men's watch upon the world and on themselves.

Archibald MacLeish

#31. What I tend to get from America is very enthusiastic letters and e-mail from librarians and schoolteachers, the gatekeepers, though I hesitate to use that word. I've never been a huge seller.

Kate Thompson

#32. Few things are better in the world than a room full of librarians. I consider them literary heroes. The keepers and defenders of the written word.

Louise Penny

#33. I know that I'll be writing for young adults for a long time. Mostly because I just love the readers and the teachers and librarians that I interact with.

Veronica Roth

#34. For one crazy moment he had the notion of a vanished tribe of librarians, lost in the deep underground caverns of the Bodleian, a wild and savage tribe that fed on unwary travellers.

Lavie Tidhar

#35. We need librarians more than we ever did. What we don't need are mere clerks who guard dead paper. Librarians are too important to be a dwindling voice in our culture. For the right librarian, this is the chance of a lifetime.

Seth Godin

#36. With 'A Northern Light,' I've already heard from teenage readers, teachers, librarians - it's been so gratifying. It's amazing that you can take something that matters so deeply to you and make it matter to someone else.

Jennifer Donnelly

#37. Librarians. He'd never met one with a bad memory. He had a theory that words stuck to their minds like flies to flypaper.

Cornelia Funke

#38. I sometimes imagine I would like my ashes to be scattered in a library. But then the librarians would just have to come in early the next morning to sweep them up again, before the people got there.

Neil Gaiman

#39. So where does one go in such a wobbly, elusive, dynamic, confusing age? Wherever the librarians and archivists are.
They're sorting it all out for us.

Marilyn Johnson

#40. When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one afternoon, and begin another in the evening ... I was probably trying to impress the librarians who kept me supplied with books.

Kathleen Norris

#41. Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom. No libraries, no progress.

Willard Scott

#42. That's how librarians are. They just can't help it.

Carla Morris

#43. If they've managed to bring more firepower than us, we deserve to lose. But we aren't going to lose, because we're the Page sisters and we're librarians.

Bill Willingham

#44. Material that might be illegal is such a minuscule part of what is available that we have to remember and I mean not only librarians but everybody has to remember not to let it overshadow the incredible wealth of information that is available in this medium.

Judith Krug

#45. Librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy.

Marilyn Johnson

#46. Some men are daylight readers, who peruse the ambiguous wording of clouds or the individual letter shapes of wandering birds. Some, like myself, are librarians of the night, whose ephemeral documents consist of root-inscribed bones or whatever rustles in the thickets upon solitary walks.

Loren Eiseley

#47. A library bears similar qualities to a hospital. Librarians are like doctors, books the prescriptions.

Trudy Wallis

#48. In fact a few simple mathematical calculations reveal that if reference librarians were paid at market rates for all the roles they play, they would have salaries well over $200,000.

Will Manley

#49. We need librarians who can handle this tremendous jumble of information that is in cyberspace.

Robert Darnton

#50. Acknowledgements
With grateful thanks to the three least-appreciated and hardest-working proselytizers of the written word: independent bookstores, librarians, and teachers.

Gail Carriger

#51. Cut the chatter!' interrupted Melnick, fiercely. 'Don't you know librarians can't stand noise? For them, noise is like waving a red rag in front of a bull.

Dmitry Glukhovsky

#52. Librarians save lives: by handing the right book, at the right time, to a kid in need

Judy Blume

#53. Poor little librarians of the world, those girls, secretly lovely, their looks marred forever by the cruelty of a pair of big dark eyeglasses!

Michael Chabon

#54. From the time I was a baby, my mom took me to the library at least once a week. Librarians were like Mary Poppins to me. They always knew how to match a book to my mood or to whatever I was going through at the time. I could always find peace in books.
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Rachel Cohn

#55. Serious critics, serious librarians, serious associate professors of English will if they read this work dislike it intensely; at least I hope so.

Edward Abbey

#56. The women in my life have all been librarians, English teachers, or booksellers. If they couldn't speak pidgin Tolstoy, articulate Henry James, or give me directions to Usher and Ox, it was no go. I have always longed for education, and pillow talk's the best.

Ray Bradbury

#57. Librarians are hideous creatures of unimaginable power. And even if you could imagine their power, it would be illegal. It is absolutely illegal to even try to picture what such a being would be like.

Joseph Fink

#58. As a general rule, librarians are a kick in the pants socially, often full of good humor, progressive, and, naturally, well read

Bill Hall

#59. Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.

Michael Morpurgo

#60. The sisterhood of librarians is a non-profit organisation and our goal is to keep imagination alive, not make money.

S.A. Tawks

#61. We cannot have good libraries until we first have good librarians-properly educated, profesionally recognized and fairly rewarded.

Herbert S. White

#62. Librarians were like guardian angels, with graying hair and beady eyes, magnified through reading glasses, and always read to recommend new literary windows to gaze through.

Ellen Hopkins

#63. Librarians ... have been my lifelong friends, guides and heroes.

Joseph Bruchac

#64. it seemed there was no place for librarians anymore.

Jenny Colgan

#65. Yes, librarians use punctuation marks to make little emoticons, smiley and frowny faces in their correspondence, but if there were one for an ironic wink, or a sarcastic lip curl, they'd wear it out.

Marilyn Johnson

#66. Back before the internet we had a name for people who bought a single copy of our books and lent them to all their friends without charging: we called them "librarians".

Charles Stross

#67. I really hope that all librarians aren't like Gladys Morgan. Because I'd really like , at some point, to walk into a library and not be afraid for my life.

Patrick Carman

#68. Librarians are like crack dealers when it comes to hooking small children.

Spider Robinson

#69. I know that there's a customary cliche about librarians being what crass people might call "hard-asses".

Leah Thomas

#70. I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, and a host of others who eventually deliver literature to the world. I want to do for others what Eudora Welty did for me.

Karl Marlantes

#71. Or possibly possessiveness was a characteristic of draconic affection. They were supposed to be hoarders, after all. Not so different from Librarians.

Genevieve Cogman

#72. [Librarians] are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess with them.

Michael Moore

#73. Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.

Patrick Ness

#74. Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society.

Janis Ian

#75. They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don't know how to find it, if you don't even know where to begin to look. - on librarians

Patrick Ness

#76. The librarians that I've spoken to, the teachers and the librarians who really care and do advise parents and children of what's good and what's out there, they are very special. They have a kind of wisdom that a lot of people don't have.

Julie Andrews

#77. Reports also indicate that the Night Vale Private Library will be entirely free of librarians, a fact that will be of little comfort to the many public library-goers who are injured or killed in librarian maulings every year.

Joseph Fink

#78. We need to write books that publicists and marketers and booksellers and book club leaders and librarians and readers can get excited about. That have something about them that makes them stand out. That makes them shine.

M.J. Rose

#79. I don't think people take librarians quite that seriously anymore.

Elizabeth Hunter

#80. Librarians were like Mary Poppins to me. They always knew how to match a book to my mood, or to whatever I was going through at the time. I could always find peace in books.

Rachel Cohn

#81. A librarian had found the baby sitting abandoned on the sheer edge of the world; the librarians kept her. That proved shrewd. Nepenthe had drooled on words, talked at them, and tried to eat them until she learned to take them into her eyes instead of her mouth.

Patricia A. McKillip

#82. I know of one semibarbarous zone whose librarians repudiate the "vain and superstitious habit" of trying to find sense in books, equating such a quest with attempting to find meaning in dreams or in the chaotic lines on the palms of one's hand.

Jorge Luis Borges

#83. Because, you know, evil demon librarians, not so much known for the honesty policy.

Michelle Knudsen

#84. I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education.

Lorraine Toussaint

#85. She came from the Institute of Sexy Librarians and Secretaries. It's that place in man-heaven where all you babes in tight skirts and glasses with your hair pulled up are born.

Anna Bishop Barker

#86. Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life ? and the lives of countless other Americans.

Barbara Bush

#87. Stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.

Barbara Mertz

#88. All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers.

Ray Bradbury

#89. To Homer, libraries were holy places like churches, and the priestly librarians a blessed race, a saving remnant in a world of sin. Whenever God grew impatient and decided to destroy the world he remembered the librarians and stayed his hand.

Jane Langton

#90. The Burgess sisters arrived together. Tara and Lainie do a little bit of everything. Sometimes dancers, sometimes actresses. Once they were librarians, but that is a subject they will only discuss if heavily intoxicated.

Erin Morgenstern

#91. Librarians are on the front lines of an invisible struggle over our information diet and, for better or worse, the scales are not tipping in their direction.

Peter Morville

#92. Librarians see themselves as the guardians of the First Amendment. You got a thousand Mother Joneses at the barricades! I love the librarians, and I am grateful for them!

Michael Moore

#93. Librarians lend people books from the library. The best librarians are children's book librarians.

Richard Scarry

#94. Librarians, too, are gatekeepers
not of actual experience, of course, but of its written accounts. My job is to safeguard those accounts. Not to judge them; simply to see to their proper dissemination.

Martha Cooley

#95. Because of our library system anyone in America can educate themselves in any field they desire. If they are confused, librarians (that without exception in my forty-seven years experience with them) actually want to help; they take the time to try and get whatever is needed. For free. For anybody.

Nevada Barr

#96. I'll just hang upside down from the wire banana and throw bags of flour at the librarians.

Lissa Evans

#97. Nonsense," said another voice-Dr. Rust. "We're librarians. When we don't find what we're looking for in the first place we look, we don't give up. We keep looking.

Polly Shulman

#98. I know of an uncouth region whose librarians repudiate the vain and superstitious custom of finding a meaning in books and equate it with that of finding a meaning in dreams or in the chaotic lines of one's palm

Jose Borges

#99. You don't have to become an investment banker as a way of demonstrating that education has worked for you. But librarians have to believe in the values of high culture. Not just high culture but middle culture, low culture, kinds of exciting eye-catching crap of all kinds. Everyone needs that.

Francis Spufford

#100. Some believe that every library looks like a splendid cemetery of human thoughts and ideas. Could librarians be called grave-diggers? However that may be, like a cemetery, a library will never stop being of use.

Lara Biyuts