Avi Quotes

I was a librarian.

When you are writing, of course, you have to do all that writing and correcting for yourself. When I was a librarian it was expected that I would know about a wide range of books.

I was a librarian in a city school.

Librarians are awesome; I don't care who knows it.

In addition to being a writer, I'm a librarian - professionally trained and everything.

I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.

What can I say? Librarians rule.

I wanted to be a librarian from a very young age. Some of my earliest memories are being taken to the local library. I ended up working as a bookseller. Becoming a writer was the logical offshoot of being a reader.

My mother was a librarian, and she worked at the Black Resource Center in South Central Los Angeles and would call me to tell me stories that she read about that were interesting to her.

In the last century, I earned my living as a librarian, and I loved it. I'd have to take some classes to get up to speed with 21st-century librarianship.

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

One of the reasons that I take such joy in being a trustee of the New York Public Library is the love of reading that I found as a child in the Saturday morning library events for preschoolers and first and second graders as I was growing up in Augusta, GA.

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library.

I wanted to be a librarian.

In Liverpool, where I live, we have a brilliant library which has been refurbished, and I like going there.

My grandmother had a Ph.D in library science, so I grew up in a library, and I would appreciate those books and the smell of them and how they'd have these series, and it was cool to me. I always felt like, if I had an opportunity, I'd create an album that felt like a series.

I'm a librarian, not an oracle.

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

To all librarians everywhere, God bless you.

The librarian's mission should be, not like up to now, a mere handling of the book as an object, but rather a know how (mise au point) of the book as a vital function.

[Librarians] study their field with as much determination and as much delight as open-heart surgeons.

Librarian of Congress: It's a librarian's dream.

I spent my life in the library reading books.

My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.