Daniel Handler Quotes

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 path to the future--find yours there.

Anything worth anything can be found in books.

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.

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

The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.

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

We're not going to outgrow our need for information.

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

Research is creating new knowledge.

There are always things that you want to know more about.

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems... It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the unsolved ones.

If I knew the answer to that question, I would disclose it.

You can learn more about anything, and the truth about almost anything is surprising.

To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind toward discovery.

I don't want pictures, I want to find things out.

The library was one enormous room, with long, high metal shelves and the perfect quiet that libraries provide for anyone looking for an answer.

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

With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

One thing I've learned: you can know anything, it's all there, you just have to find it.

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

The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder.

To start with, look at all the books.

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