“Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time” Edwin P. Whipple

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See more quotes by Edwin Percy Whipple, (1819 - 1886) an American essayist and critic, in Dictionary of Library and Information Science Edited by Mohamed Taher and L S Ramaiah. ISBN: 8185689423 (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994), pages 377-378.

Which author would you most want to call, if you were given the opportunity?

"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the
author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though." JD Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (published 1951, a novel).

More quotes by JD Salinger, writers and reading in Dictionary of Library and Information Science Edited by Mohamed Taher and L S Ramaiah. ISBN: 8185689423 (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994)

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No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us...

“No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we could learn ourselves, from a book” by Cyril Connolly, English critic and editor, 1903-1974

QuotationsMore quotes by  Cyril Connolly in  Dictionary of Library and Information Science Edited by Mohamed Taher and L S Ramaiah. ISBN: 8185689423 (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) (p. 92-93)

On the same shelf:

• “Each of us is a book waiting to be written, and that book, if written, results in a person  explained.” - Thomas M. Cirignano, Author -- (source and here) /  "Each of us is a book waiting to be written, and that book if written, he must trust and he must have faith. And so he builds, because what is building, and rebuilding and rebuilding again, but an act of faith." (source: Author Garry Phillips  via FB's Shameless Book Lovers)

The Library at Night

The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel, Yale University Press (2009), ISBN: 0300151306

About the book:

Inspired by the process of creating a library for his fifteenth-century home near the Loire, in France, Alberto Manguel, the acclaimed writer on books and reading, has taken up the subject of libraries. “Libraries,” he says, “have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can remember I’ve been seduced by their labyrinthine logic.” In this personal, deliberately unsystematic, and wide-ranging book, he offers a captivating meditation on the meaning of libraries.

Manguel, a guide of irrepressible enthusiasm, conducts a unique library tour that extends from his childhood bookshelves to the “complete” libraries of the Internet, from Ancient Egypt and Greece to the Arab world, from China and Rome to Google. He ponders the doomed library of Alexandria as well as the personal libraries of Charles Dickens, Jorge Luis Borges, and others. He recounts stories of people who have struggled against tyranny to preserve freedom of thought—the Polish librarian who smuggled books to safety as the Nazis began their destruction of Jewish libraries; the Afghani bookseller who kept his store open through decades of unrest. Oral “memory libraries” kept alive by prisoners, libraries of banned books, the imaginary library of Count Dracula, the library of books never written—Manguel illuminates the mysteries of libraries as no other writer could. With scores of wonderful images throughout, The Library at Night is a fascinating voyage through Manguel’s mind, memory, and vast knowledge of books and civilizations.

Review

"'... crowded with memorable tales of reading as rescue, as solace, as liberation, in times of want, fear or tyranny... The Library at Night revels in the physical pleasure of drifting and dipping through the Gutenberg galaxy of ink-on-paper books.' Boyd Tonkin interview with Alberto Manguel, The Independent 'Books jump out of their jackets when Manguel opens them and dance in delight as they make contact with his ingenious, voluminous brain. He is not the keeper of a silent cemetery, but a master of bibliographical revels.' Peter Conrad, The Observer"

About the Author

Alberto Manguel is an internationally acclaimed anthologist, translator, essayist, novelist, and editor, and the author of several award-winning books, including A Dictionary of Imaginary Places and A History of Reading.