#librarian

I talk to a lot of librarians, and there's always a steady drumbeat of how libraries are places of community. But a lot of them have also recently - and just in the nick of time - refurbished, because during this economic downturn, people have a tendency to borrow instead of buy. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#always #because #borrow #buy #community

I don't need no Smith and Wesson, man, I got Merriam and Webster. ↗

— Avi Steinberg

#reading #librarians

Aspiring Asimovs! ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#cussing #exclamations #librarians

They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if you don’t even know where to begin to look. - on librarians ↗

— Patrick Ness

#librarians #thoughtful #inspirational

To all my librarian friends, champions of books, true magicians in the House of Life. Without you, this writer would be lost in the Dust. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#dedications #librarians #life

The woman was putting her purse in the drawer and settling down behind the desk, and I realized I had never seen her before in my life. Her face was as wrinkled as one of those forgotten apples you sometimes find in the pocket of last year's winter jacket. Yes?" she said, peering over her spectacles. They teach them to do that at the Royal Academy of Library Science. ↗

— Alan Bradley

#life

When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one afternoon, and begin another in the evening. . . . I was probably trying to impress the librarians who kept me supplied with books. ↗

— Kathleen Norris

#reading #librarians

Never argue with a librarian; they know too much. ↗

— Carole Nelson Douglas

#librarians

Now you may have gotten the impression that there are absolutely no uses for Librarians. I'm sorry if I implied that. Librarians are very useful. For instance, they are useful if you are fishing for sharks and need some bait. They're also useful for throwing out windows to test the effects of concrete impact on horn-rimmed glasses. If you have enough Librarians, you can build bridges out of them. (Just like witches.) And, unfortunately, they are also useful for organizing things. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#librarians

But you want murderous feelings? Hang around librarians," confided Gamache. "All that silence. Gives them ideas. ↗

— Louise Penny

#librarians