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You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook.

You belong in the library, as much as any book.

You can get lost in any library, no matter the size. But the more lost you are, the more things you'll find.

You can learn from a glance at anyone's library, not what they are, but what they wish to be.

You cannot have a really terrific library without at least one terrific librarian, the way you cannot have a really terrific bedroom unless you can lock the door.

You can only learn to read by reading.

You can tell a lot about an area from its library, and I'd never discount the usefulness of town archives.

You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time. A lot of the people whose work they’ve taught in the schools for the last thirty years, I can’t understand why people read them and why they are taught. The library, on the other hand, has no biases. The information is all there for you to interpret. You don’t have someone telling you what to think. You discover it for yourself.

You don’t write a book when God called you to publish a library! You don’t plant a tree when God send you to cultivate a forest! You don’t evangelize to a crowd when God called you for a multitude! No matter the circumstances, find yourself doing something relevant and do it till all is well done!

A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.

You, my dear, should spend more time in a library. It's not just a hiding place, but also the place where the chases happen.

You will never find me in trouble. You will find me in the library. If you can remember where that is.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

A completely free library is as rare as a truly free lunch.

Your answers lie here," Rovender said, gesturing around the library.

Access to a school library results in more reading.

Access to public libraries also affects how much children read.

A couple of months in the laboratory can frequently save a couple of hours in the library.

A good library can provide the furniture of our minds and the threads from which we weave our dreams.

A curious thing happened: the terrains of England began to impinge on my consciousness, altering, then effacing, the world outside the library window… I was wrapped in a pleasurable dreaminess. I was in a better place. If true life existed elsewhere, then I had almost found it.

Affliction is the best book in a minister's library.

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.

A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love.

A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.

A friend of mine said to me a year ago, "You're so lucky, Nancy, because Ronnie left you the library," She said, "You have that to work on, and to go to, and, in a sense, to be with him." I had never thought of it like that, but it's true. I go to the library or work for the library all the time, because it's Ronnie. I'm working for Ronnie.

A good library at home is a giant empire inside the house.

A library is a feast to which we are all invited.

A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.

A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival.

A library is an adjustable wrench for opening the head.

A library is a palace of dreams.

A library is a platform upon which we catch trains to Every Where and Any Place, Another Time and Across Space. All aboard!

A library is the first step of a thousand journeys, portal to a thousand worlds.

A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it.

A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.

A library is a place full of mouth-watering food for thought.

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

A library is where you meet fascinating characters you never forget.

A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences.

A library card is good to have, you can never have too much ID.

A library is a gateway to others' minds, hearts, and lives.

A library is a path to the future--find yours there.

A library is a room where the murders take place.

A library is the door to many lives.

A library card is the start of a lifelong adventure.

A library is a fueling station for your mind.

A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it.

A library is the only single place you can go to learn something new, be comforted, terrified, thrilled, saddened, overjoyed, or excited all in one day. And for free.

A library should be like a pair of open arms.

A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.