Elizabeth Williams-Herrman

“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
― Mark Twain

“[D]on't ever apologise to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologise to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read...”
― Neil Gaiman

“There was the smell of old books, a smell that has a way of making all libraries seem the same. Some say that smell is asbestos. ”
― Scott Douglas, Quiet, Please: Dispatches From A Public Librarian

“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”
― Henry Adams