{"quotes":[{"text":"Reading is the noblest of all the hobbies, that is why people mention it so frequently in their resume even if they don't read much.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","book","book-reading","books","curriculum-vitae","cv","experience","fun","funny","funny","hobbies","hobby","hobby-of-reading","human","humans","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","knowledge","library","library-books","motivation","motivational","motivational","noble","noblest","philosophy","problems","reading","reading-books","resume","solutions","wisdom","wisdom","wit","witty","witty"],"id":11458,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"I despair of ever getting it through anybody's head I am not interested in bookshops, I am interested in what's written in the books. I don't browse in bookshops, I browse in libraries, where you can take a book home and read it, and if you like it you go to a bookshop and buy it.","author":"Helene Hanff","tags":["book","bookstore","library books"],"id":18370,"author_id":"Helene+Hanff"},{"text":"The pleasure of reading is the greatest solitude.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["ambition","beleive-and-you-shall-receive","books","books","bookshelves","bookstores","christian","determined-spirit","educational-philosophy","educational","inspirational-life","inspirational","learner","learning-process","learning","library","library-books","lifelong-education","lifelong-learner","motivation","optimism","pleasure","read","read-and-write","readers","reading","self-help","solitude","student","uplifting","wisdo","wise-wise-words","writers"],"id":25438,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"A library was nothing without its people. You say library and there’s this iconoclastic image of an old-lady librarian telling people to be quiet and not to run. But the thing was, that lady—that iconoclastic lady—was with us when we cleaned. She wore blue jeans, too. Maybe she was what people thought about when you said library, but she didn’t make the library. People made the library. That’s what made a library. Without them, all the sacredness was gone. It was just a building with books.","author":"Scott Douglas","tags":["librarians","library","library-books","quiet-please"],"id":33284,"author_id":"Scott+Douglas"},{"text":"I stopped in St. Bernadette's Cemetery one of my favorite places... The trunks of six giant oaks rise like columns supporting a ceiling formed by their interlocking crowns. In the quiet space below, is laid out an aisle similar to those in any library. The gravestones are like rows of books bearing the names of those whose names have been blotted from the pages of life; who have been forgotten elsewhere but are remembered here.","author":"Dean Koontz","tags":["cemetery","library-books","loss","remeberance"],"id":41585,"author_id":"Dean+Koontz"},{"text":"I like to imagine that library school was started because of some sort of silly bar bet where a guy got really plastered and told his buddy that he could convince people that librarians needed to be trained in the art of librarianship. Sadly, this is not the case; its roots are a bit more academic.","author":"Scott Douglas","tags":["librarians","library","library-books","quiet-please"],"id":53274,"author_id":"Scott+Douglas"},{"text":"Such fascinating things, libraries. She closes her eyes. She couldwalk inside and step into a murder, a love story, a complete accountof somebody else’s life, or mutiny on the high seas. Such potential;such adventure—there’s a shimmer of malfeasance in trying otherways of being.","author":"Ashley Hay","tags":["librarians","library-books","literature","literature"],"id":74479,"author_id":"Ashley+Hay"},{"text":"It took a bit of popcorn and a library snack bar to make me realize that being a librarian was about more than just giving people information. It was about serving a community. And if the community is hungry for more than just knowledge, then maybe it’s about time to open a snack bar.","author":"Scott Douglas","tags":["librarians","library","library-books","quiet-please"],"id":78618,"author_id":"Scott+Douglas"},{"text":"I loved college... I knew exactly why I was there and what I wanted to get out of it. I wished I could take every course in the curriculum and read every book in the library. Sometimes after I finished a particularly good book, I had the urge to get the library card, find our who else had read the book, and track them down to talk about it.","author":"Jeanette Walls","tags":["avid-readers","book-lover","college","library-books","reading"],"id":79689,"author_id":"Jeanette+Walls"},{"text":"For me, every book is an individual with its own identity and has to be nurtured and taken care of, so that it may survive for a longer period.","author":"Anurag Shourie","tags":["bibliophile","bibliophiles","book","book-lovers","book","book","books","bookworm","library-books"],"id":89990,"author_id":"Anurag+Shourie"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":24,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}