Jean Fritz Quotes

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.

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.

[His] library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore.

I ransack public libraries & find them full of sunk treasure.

For me, books have been a life-long resource-to learning, laughter, solace, excitement, inspiration. At your library, the world awaits you, free for the asking.

The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the stacks.

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

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

I've always liked libraries. They're quiet and full of books and full of knowledge.

They go in [to the library] not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.

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.

Books, books, books! I had found the secret of a garret room Piled high with cases in my father’s name; Piled high, packed large,--where, creeping in and out Among the giant fossils of my past, Like some small nimble mouse between the ribs Of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there At this or that box, pulling through the gap, In heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, The first book first. And how I felt it beat Under my pillow, in the morning’s dark, An hour before the sun would let me read! My books!

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.

Libraries are where it all begins.

Libraries raised me.

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

As a child, I spent a lot of time at the library.

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

The more one reads, the more one sees that one has to read.

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

I'm a bookworm.

Public libraries were a huge source of comfort and joy for me when I was growing up. I still spend time there.

My goal is to be surrounded by books.

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 where you meet fascinating characters you never forget.