"And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.

So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries."
— Kurt Vonnegut (A Man Without a Country)

"You see, I don't belive that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, that has been the main reason for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians."
— Graham Chapman

"Librarians are all knowing and all seeing. They bring order to chaos.
They preserve every aspect of human knowledge. Librarians rule. And they will kick the crap out of anyone who says otherwise.


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— librarianavengers.org

"She'd always been a little excitable, a little more passionate about books than your average person, but she was supposed to be -- she was a librarian, after all.
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— Sarah Beth Durst (Out of the Wild)

"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."
— Oscar Wilde

"'Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read."
— Mark Twain

"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."
— Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)

"You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up."
— Pat Conroy (The Prince of Tides)

"A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity."
— Germaine Greer

"Don't mark up the Library's copy, you fool! Librarians are Unprankable. They'll track you down! They have skills!"
— Charles Ogden

"Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries."
— Anne Herbert