Katherine Paterson Quotes

Libraries...house our dreams.

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

Books do furnish a room.

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

What we find in books is like the fire in our hearths. We fetch it from our neighbors, we kindle it at home, we communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

Getting books out into the world helps us all.

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.

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

We need to read good books, and for that to happen, we need to share good books.

Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land as the sower sows his wheatfield.

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

A library should be like a pair of open arms.

A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window.

Ordinary people have big TVs. Extraordinary people have big libraries.

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

The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.

Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library.

Here is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore.

What in the world would we do without our libraries?

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.

A library is infinity under a roof.

During the day, the library is a realm of order.

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.

When in doubt, go to the library.

The library is the temple of learning.