“Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion.”
Ordainers of The Universe, p. 198.
A History of Reading (1996)
Jerome's suicide note
The Pillow Book
“Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion.”
Ordainers of The Universe, p. 198.
A History of Reading (1996)
“In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still, and absorbed.”
"Still in Melbourne, January 1987"
Source: Daddy, We Hardly Knew You (1989)
Context: Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace, and wit, reminders of order, calm, and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. The pleasure they give is steady, unorgastic, reliable, deep, and long-lasting. In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still, and absorbed.
“Shut not your doors to me proud libraries.”
Drum Taps
“A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window.”
Source: How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
As quoted in Biography Today : Profiles of People of Interest to Young Readers, Vol. 12, Issue 2 : Laura Bush by Joanne Mattern (2003), p. 34