Daniel Handler Quotes

In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.

A library is many things, but particularly it is a place where books live, and where you can get in touch with other people, and other thoughts, through books... Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had.

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.

The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

A library is thought in cold storage.

I was a librarian.

A library implies an act of faith.

Your library is your paradise.

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

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

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

May books spread the world over!

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

A great library contains the diary of the human race.

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

I was a librarian in a city school.

We will have a total chaos without books, literature, and library.

Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, "The world is quiet here," as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.

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 gateway to others' minds, hearts, and lives.

What can I say? Librarians rule.

The colonists had no library at their disposal; but the engineer was a book which was always at hand, always open at the page which one wanted, a book which answered all their questions, and which they often consulted.

To start with, look at all the books.

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