Edward Gorey Quotes

Me, I'm an encyclopedia. I'm not a very smart guy, but I'm an encyclopedia. You can ask me about anything you want. Probably I have the book; probably I have a first edition.

I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information.

A library is many things. It's a place to go, to get in out of the rain. It's a place to go if you want to sit and think. But particularly it is a place where books live, and where you can get in touch with other people, and other thoughts, through books. If you want to find out about something, the information is in the reference books---the dictionaries, the encyclopedias, the atlases. If you like to be told a story, the library is the place to go.

To start with, look at all the books.

Anything worth anything can be found in books.

A book is valuable not only for what it says but for what it makes you think, or causes you to remember. No matter what you wish to do or become there are books to teach you, help you, guide you.

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world.

I read books and talked to people. I mean that's kind of how one learns anything. There's lots of great books out there & lots of smart people.

There are 20,000 million books I could have to read, but I can pick the ones and know that I'm learning something that I didn't know before. That's the glory of writing. It's not even so much the writing, it's what you learn - especially history - because so much of it is research.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

I have depended on books not only for pleasure and for the wisdom they bring to all who read, but also for that knowledge which comes to others through their eyes and their ears.

I spent my life in the library reading books.

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.

You need help, and that's what books are for.

Of course. You get everything from books.

Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.