There's no architect who doesn't want to build a library - and I am no different. With so much scrutiny now attached to reading - because of technology and how we approach it as a social activity - that is a very exciting area in architecture.
In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense.
What in the world would we do without our libraries?
Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen.
They go in [to the library] not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.
It's fun to just skim through piles of books in the stacks of a library.
[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation.
In America there is a public library in every community. How many public libraries are there in Africa? Every day there are new books coming out and new ideas being discussed. But these new books and ideas don't reach Africa and we are being left behind.
There is no access to contemporary poetry in the libraries.
A library is an adjustable wrench for opening the head.
I'm a nerd. I like to sit in the library. I don't like to sweat.
We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of this memory is called the library
I always have to go out to work even if it's just a desk somewhere or an office or the British Library.
Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.
Our libraries are not cloisters for an elite. They are for the people, and if they are not used, the fault belongs to those who do not take advantage of their wealth.
A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there in a book, you may have your question answered
The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library. . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
A good library is a place, a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet.
Libraries have always been there for me. Of course I'll stand up for them!
If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and you are damaging the future.