Neil Gaiman Quotes About Libraries

Quotes about: Libraries

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  Libraries are our friends.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

• [D]on't ever apologize 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 apologize 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

  Book, Healing, Hands

• Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

• It's still National Library Week. You should be especially nice to a librarian today, or tomorrow. Sometime this week, anyway. Probably the librarians would like tea. Or chocolates. Or a reliable source of funding.

  Neil Gaiman

  Motivational, Appreciation, Kindness

  FaceBook post by Neil Gaiman from Apr 14, 2010

• I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I'd go and work my way through the children's area.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Kids, Parent

• Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism.

  Neil Gaiman

  Civilization, Library, Red

• But libraries are about freedom. Freedom to read, freedom of ideas, freedom of communication. They are about education (which is not a process that finishes the day we leave school or university), about entertainment, about making safe spaces, and about access to information.

  Neil Gaiman

  Communication, School, Ideas

  Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.13, HarperCollins

• 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.

  Neil Gaiman

  Past, Voice, Library

  Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.14, HarperCollins

• I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination.

  Neil Gaiman

  War, Imagination, Soldier

• A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it.

  Neil Gaiman

  Giving, Library, Citizens

  "Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming" by Neil Gaiman, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2013.

• He would go somewhere no one knew him, and he would sit in a library all day and read books and listen to people breathing.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Breathing, People

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.120, A&C Black

• Reading is important. Books are important. Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.)

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Book, Reading

  Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.21, HarperCollins

• Libraries really are the gates to the future.

  Neil Gaiman

  Library, Gates

  Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.14, HarperCollins

• For me, closing libraries is the equivalent of eating your seed corn to save a little money.

  Neil Gaiman

  Library, Littles, Corn

  "Neil Gaiman: Libraries are cultural 'seed corn'". Interview with Toby Litt, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2014.

• A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it. That includes health information. And mental health information. It's a community space. It's a place of safety, a haven from the world.

  Neil Gaiman

  Space, Safety, Giving

  Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.14, HarperCollins

• As a kid I would get my parents to drop me off at my local library on their way to work during the summer holidays and I would walk home at night. For several years I read the children's library until I finished the children's library. Then I moved into the adult library and slowly worked my way through them.

  Neil Gaiman

  Summer, Children, Home

  "Neil Gaiman on libraries, Dr Who, fanatical fans and his dreams". Neil Gaiman remarks at the interational book festival in Edinburgh, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2011.

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