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A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert. ↗


— Andrew Carnegie


#community #enrich #libraries #community

It took a bit of popcorn and a library snack bar to make me realize that being a librarian was about more than just giving people information. It was about serving a community. And if the community is hungry for more than just knowledge, then maybe it’s about time to open a snack bar. ↗


— Scott Douglas


#library #library-books #quiet-please #community

Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world! ↗


— Neil Gaiman


#gifts #gifts

I blame boobs. ↗


— Jennifer L. Armentrout


#boobs #pure #seth #blame

What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning bright...Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings? ↗


— Gustave Flaubert


#reading #expression

The instruction here is not for every kind of writer - not for the writer of nurse books or thrillers or porno or the cheaper sort of sci-fi - though it is true that what holds for the most serious kind of fiction will generally hold for junk fiction as well. (Not everyone is capable of writing junk fiction: It requires an authentic junk mind. Most creative-writing teachers have had the experience of occasionally helping to produce, by accident, a pornographer. The most elegant techniques in the world, filtered through a junk mind, become elegant junk techniques.) ↗


— John Gardner


#books #craft #craftsmanship #fiction #genre-fiction

I regained my soul through literature after those times I'd lost it to wild-eyed gypsy girls on the European streets. ↗


— Roman Payne


#europe #fortune #fortunes #gypsies #gypsy

Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything. ↗


— George Carlin


#children-s-literature #literature

You'll never be alone if you’ve got a book. ↗


— Al Pacino


#literature #reading #literature

If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again. ↗


— Daphne du Maurier


#fiction #memory






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