LIBRARY QUOTES VI

quotations about libraries

I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.

JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

The Words

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

SARAH J. MAAS

Throne of Glass

Tags: ideas


I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.

SANDRA CISNEROS

attributed, The Librarian's Book of Quotes


I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows.

ROGER ZELAZNY

Nine Princes of Amber

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I wanted a library like this ... a cave of words that I'd made myself.

MAGGIE STIEFVATER

Forever

Tags: words