Daniel Handler Quotes About Libraries

Quotes about: Libraries

• A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Ignorance, Islands

• 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.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

• The sea is nothing but a library of all the tears in history.

  Daniel Handler

  Sea, Tears, Library

• If you feel . . . that well-read people are less likely to be evil, and a world full of people sitting quietly with good books in their hands is preferable to world filled with schisms and sirens and other noisy and troublesome things, then every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, 'The world is quiet here,' as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Reading, Hands

• There are almost as many kinds of libraries as there are kinds of readers.

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  Library, Kind, Reader

• They say in every library there is a single book that can answer the question that burns like a fire in the mind.

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  Book, Fire, Mind

• Everything. A letter may be coded, and a word may be coded. A theatrical performance may be coded, and a sonnet may be coded, and there are times when it seems the entire world is in code. Some believe that the world can be decoded by performing research in a library. Others believe that the world can be decoded by reading a newspaper. In my case, the only thing that made sense of the world was you, and without you the world will seem as garbled and tragic as a malfunctioning typewrit9.

  Daniel Handler

  Reading, Believe, Library

• Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, "The world is quiet here," as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.

  Daniel Handler

  Reading, Library, World

• When trouble strikes, head to the library. You will either be able to solve the problem, or simply have something to read as the world crashes down around you.

  Daniel Handler

  Library, World, Able

• The library was one enormous room, with long, high metal shelves and the perfect quiet that libraries provide for anyone looking for an answer.

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  Long, Perfect, Library

• With a library it is easier to hope for serendipity than to look for a precise answer.

  Daniel Handler

  Serendipity, Library, Looks

• I can't imagine why you would want to take your child to see what the career of a writer is like, because it mostly consists of sitting in a room typing, or going to the library and looking something up. Those are not exciting things to watch.

  Daniel Handler

  Children, Careers, Library

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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