Top Librarian Quotes
Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.
Margaret Mahy
I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
Barbara Kingsolver
I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done.
Mick Jagger
A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the impulses by which the world goes on to improvement.
Justin Winsor
My boyfriend thinks I lost my true calling to be a librarian.
Paulina Porizkova
All Librarian Quotes
Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.
Margaret Mahy 
57% of people like this quote
I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
Barbara Kingsolver 
57% of people like this quote
I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done.
Mick Jagger 
56% of people like this quote
A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the impulses by which the world goes on to improvement.
Justin Winsor 
56% of people like this quote
My boyfriend thinks I lost my true calling to be a librarian.
Paulina Porizkova 
56% of people like this quote
I have a brother younger than me. My mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read.
Shimon Peres 
54% of people like this quote
There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry.
Rita Dove 
52% of people like this quote
A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
Umberto Eco 
49% of people like this quote
The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant.
Melvil Dewey 
49% of people like this quote

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