Daniel Handler Quotes

In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.

A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.

Your library is your paradise.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

One day, when I own a house, I'll keep a library full of books. Books are different from other possessions-they're more like friends.

Library: A place where the dead lie.

If peace had a smell,it would be the smell of a library full of old, leather-bound books.

To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please.

Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books.

I've always liked libraries. They're quiet and full of books and full of knowledge.

A library is many things, but particularly it is a place where books live, and where you can get in touch with other people, and other thoughts, through books... Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had.

When trouble strikes, head to the library. You will either be able to solve the problem, or simply have something to read as the world crashes down around you.

Yo, que me figuraba el Paraíso / Bajo la especie de una biblioteca. I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library.

They go in [to the library] not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.

Books are a world in themselves, it is true; but they are not the only world. The world itself is a volume larger than all the libraries in it.

The library is the temple of learning.

The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.

A deserted library in the morning - there's something about it that really gets to me. All possible words and ideas are there, resting peacefully.

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.

Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.

Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among themselves. In the light of this reflection, the library seemed all the more disturbing to me. It was then the place of a long, centuries-old murmuring, an imperceptible dialogue between one parchment and another, a living thing, a receptacle of powers not to be ruled by a human mind, a treausre of secrets emanated by many minds, surviving the death of those who had produced them or had been their conveyors.

Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what sense other people have made of it. If people give you a hard time and tell you to get your nose out of a book, tell them you're working. Tell them it's research. Tell them to pipe down and leave you alone.

I read constantly because there is so much to learn from the writing in the world.

When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last only for as long as you can take out a book.