“A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.”

“The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries, with vast air shafts between, surrounded by very low railings.”

Jorge Luis Borges book The Library of Babel

“Surrounded by stories surreal and sublime, I fell in Love in the Library once upon a time.”

Jimmy Buffett (1946) American singer–songwriter and businessman

“It is like having a book out from the library.
It is like constantly having a book out from the library.”

Lorrie Moore (1957) American writer

“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”

Walter Cronkite (1916–2009) American broadcast journalist

“In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

“We longed to be in the middle of some neophyte gaze of some library entity, of someone rediscovering paper.”

José Baroja book Mi último invierno

“Library-denigrators, pay heed: suggesting that the Internet is a viable substitute for libraries is like saying porn could replace your wife.”

Joanne Harris (1964) British author

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

Stewart Brand (1938) American writer

“Nagiko, I am waiting for you. Meet me at the library. Any library. Every library. Yours, Jerome.”

Peter Greenaway (1942) British film director