Alexander Smith Quotes

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

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

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

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

With every book, you go back to school. You become a student. You become an investigative reporter. You spend a little time learning what it's like to live in someone else's shoes.

Libraries have been sanctuaries, a place I can go to discover.

I love to get in the library and just spend days researching characters.

Without the library, I would have been lost.

I read a lot of books. I read because it inspires me and shows me paths that I could never imagine. Sometimes those paths are horrible and sad, and sometimes they are hopeful and amazing. Not always are they paths to the future, and sometimes the paths are actually about the past but make sense when applied to the future. Books are amazing.

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 read is to voyage through time.

A library is a path to the future--find yours there.

To start with, look at all the books.

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.

Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.

I spent my life in the library reading books.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

A personal library is a reflection of who you are and who you want to be, of what you value and what you desire, of how much you know and how much more you'd like to know.

You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

Books were the window from which I looked out of a rather meager and decidedly narrow room onto a rich and wonderful universe. I loved the look and feel of books, even the smell... Libraries were treasure houses. I always entered them with a slight thrill of disbelief that all their endless riches were mine for the borrowing.

As a kid, I used to go to the library and take out all the art books.

I'm not a library.

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

Your library is your paradise.