Julia Glass Quotes

I worked in restaurants, and I worked in the Cambridge Public Library.

I was a paper boy, beginning the summer between my fourth-grade and fifth-grade years.

The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom are not able to purchase expensive publications on those subjects.

My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self-fulfilling prophecy?

In early days, I tried not to give librarians any trouble, which was where I made my primary mistake. Librarians like to be given trouble; they exist for it, they are geared to it. For the location of a mislaid volume, an uncatalogued item, your good librarian has a ferret’s nose. Give her a scent and she jumps the leash, her eye bright with battle.

Few things are better in the world than a room full of librarians. I consider them literary heroes. The keepers and defenders of the written word.

I suppose I'm an obsessive reader. If I could make a living reading the books I want to read and then telling people about them, I'd pick that over acting.

I've always been a voracious reader.

I used to say that if I could get paid to read books, my life would be made.

In the summer of 1997, a little more than half a lifetime ago, I got my first proper summer job. The job, with one of the many branches of Canada's federal government in Ottawa, covered the entire tuition for my sophomore year of college.

I spent the summers packing toothpaste at a factory, working where my dad worked, and everyone else had gone on a gap year!

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

In high school the very first job I got was I worked as a cashier in Burgerville, which is this fast food place in Oregon. I kind of grew up to be a spoiled little kid so my dad was like, 'You're going to get a job for the summer!' I was this clueless immigrant like, 'May I take your order? Sorry sir, I don't know what I'm doing!'

I'm a bookworm, so I read about a book a month.

I love a good book. I'm not a club girl. I like hanging out and reading my books.

I've just always been a reader.

I cannot imagine the type of sinister fiend who would be against the library. A library essentially says, 'Look, here is some free information that will enrich your life. Read it on your own time. I trust that you will bring it back when you are finished.' It might be the most civilized, forward-thinking institution in America. Perhaps the only one, in fact.

Librarying is a harder profession than the public realizes, he said. People think it's all rubber stamps, knowing that Dewey 521 is celestial mechanics and saying 'Try looking under fiction' sixty eight times a day.

One summer I worked at Estée Lauder, and I really enjoyed the whole creative process.

I've been very lucky in my employment over the years. You would think that the worst job I've ever had was as janitor, but it really wasn't, because I was a janitor at my dad's office building when I was younger.

My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.

Reading is important. Books are important. Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.)

Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.

Librarianship is a form of heroism. It’s just not as flashy as swords and dragons.

After I graduated from high school, one of the former workers on our farm asked if I would be willing to join him in selling Fuller brushes through the summer. It seemed like a perfect way to make some money for college. And being away from my parents and learning to make my own way gave me self confidence.