It had always been my habit-- privately I felt it to be an ecstasy-- to enter, as into a mysterious vault, any public library. I was drawn to books that had been read before, novels that girls like myself had cradled and cherished. In my mind-- I suppose in my isolation-- I seized on all those previous readers, and everyone who would read after me, as phantom companions and secret friends. Cynthia Ozick
A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.
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Lemony Snicket
When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.
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Rita Mae Brown
I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.
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Virginia Woolf
I read, ' I say. 'I study and read. I bet I've read everything you've read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out spines and ROM drives. I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on...
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David Foster Wallace
There's this magical place, ' he says with mock solemnity, 'called a library-- I don't know if you've heard of it, but they have books, and also newspaper, and back issues of newspapers...
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Anonymous
More Quotes By Cynthia Ozick
If a novel's salient aim is virtue, I want to throw it against the wall.
Get thee to the novel! - the novel, that word-woven submarine, piloted by intimation and intuition, that will dive you to the deeps of the heart's maelstrom.
Lie, illusion, deception, she said--was that it truly, the universal language we all speak?
A writer is dreamed and transfigured into being by spells, wishes, goldfish, silhouettes of trees, boxes of fairy tales dropped in the mud, uncles' and cousins' books, tablets and capsules and powders..and then one day you find yourself leaning here, writing on that round glass...
The ground was scorched, the streets teemed with refugees, and these Americans were playing at fleeing! As if they had something to resent, to despise, to scorn, to run away from! As if they weren't the lords of the earth.
