Libba Bray Quotes

The old man was peering intently at the shelves. 'I'll have to admit that he's a very competent scholar.' Isn't he just a librarian?' Garion asked, 'somebody who looks after books?' That's where all the rest of scholarship starts, Garion. All the books in the world won't help you if they're just piled up in a heap.

To start with, look at all the books.

I spent my life in the library reading books.

How precious a book is in light of the offering, in the light of the one who has the privilege of this offering. The library tells you of this offering.

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

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

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

Without the library, I would have been lost.

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.

Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom.

...I spent many, many hours in...libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.

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

Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom.

Libraries are the center of our lives. There's no use going to a university if you don't live at the library.

When in doubt, go to the library.

Go anywhere you wish, talk to everyone. Ask any questions; you will be given answers. When you want to learn, you will be taught. Use the library. Open any book.

There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the 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 capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

I love researching. That's one of my favorite parts about school.

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

You can spend a day in a library and feel: 'Great, I've done a day's work.' But it's only research, not writing.

I'm not a library.

Your library is your paradise.

I've been reading a lot of books on history, and watching a lot of educational TV. Wikipedia too, even though it is not reliable.