Literary Haven Quotes

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.

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.

The whole of Paris is a vast university of Art, Literature and Music... it is worth anyone's while to dally here for years. Paris is a seminar, a post-graduate course in everything.

It's a library, only the stupid or the evil are afraid of those

When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library.

Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life ? and the lives of countless other Americans.

She said it out loud, the words distributed into a room that was full of cold air and books. Books everywhere! Each wall was armed with overcrowded yet immaculate shelving. It was barely possible to see paintwork. There were all different styles and sizes of lettering on the spines of the black, the red, the gray, the every-colored books. It was one of the most beautiful things Liesel Meminger had ever seen. With wonder, she smiled. That such a room existed!

Libraries are places where the damaged go to find friends

I get a warm feeling among my books.

If peace had a smell,it would be the smell of a library full of old, leather-bound books.

I've always wanted to buy a bookstore. You know, sell some of those muffins and a little coffee. I don't care if we make any money. I don't want to lose a lot of money, but we could visit with people and get books.

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness - and love. Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn't ask anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly.

Many people don't know that New Jersey is a fertile breeding ground for writers, some of them quite renowned. And I would wager that most would be truly startled to learn that the star in the Jersey firmament is - drum roll here - Newark.

Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.

The library was like a second home. Or maybe more like a real home, more than the place I lived in. By going every day I got to know all the lady librarians who worked there. They knew my name and always said hi. I was painfully shy, though, and could barely reply.

Being in the library is so addictive for me that I really have to exercise self-control so I can get some writing done at home.

You walk into BookCon, and everybody is so excited... it's just paradise.

Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.

As I walked, I ran my fingers along the spines of hundreds of books. I let myself be imbued with the smell, with the light that filtered through the cracks or from the glass lanterns embedded in the wooden structure, floating among mirrors and shadows.

As a shy, introverted, scholarly child (long ago) I don't know what I would have done without libraries! My family moved often. I was always the new kid in town. The library always offered me my first and most important friendship: the place where I felt right at home. I still feel that way today, about libraries.

A place isn't a place until it has a bookstore.

I wanted to live among books.