“Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but libraries just sit there lending you books quietly out of the goodness of their hearts.”

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Welsh Canadian writer 1964

Helene Hanff book 84, Charing Cross Road

Source: 84, Charing Cross Road

“Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Ch. LIX
Following the Equator (1897)

“[On libraries] What's great about them is that anybody can go into them and find a book and borrow it free of charge and read it. They don't have to steal it from a bookshop… You know when you're young, you're growing up, they're almost sexually exciting places because books are powerhouses of knowledge, and therefore they're kind of slightly dark and dangerous. You see books that kind of make you go 'Oh!”

Stephen Fry (1957) English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist

Room 101 (2001)
2000s

“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

Source: Self-Help

“Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.”

Anatole France (1844–1924) French writer

“It's a forced disappearance...All those who have disappeared are related to the Causeway Bay bookshop and this bookshop was famous, not only for the sale, but also for the publication and circulation of a series of sensitive books.”

Albert Ho (1951) Hong Kong politician

Source: January 6, 2016 Briton confirmed missing as mystery deepens over Hong Kong booksellers https://edition.cnn.com/2016/01/05/asia/hong-kong-china-missing-booksellers/index.html

“You took out a book on blow-job technique from the British Library? They shouldn't have books like that in there!”

Sarra Manning (1950) British writer

Source: You Don't Have to Say You Love Me