Barbara Bretton famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The library is my cathedral.
-- Barbara Bretton

#Library #Cathedrals
I use to believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and Tom Cruise too.
-- Barbara Bretton

#Easter #Believe #Use
Moderation, honey, in all things but love and chocolate. That's my motto.
-- Barbara Bretton

#Chocolate #Honey #Moderation
Eve Byron has a permanent place on my must-buy list. Her characters are three-dimensional men and women who live on in readers' hearts long after they've turned the last page. ONLY IN MY DREAMS is pure Eve Byron, which means it's a pure delight. I fell in love with Lorelei and Dane, two of the most delightful characters I've encountered in a very long time. Byron's magical touch never falters. ONLY IN MY DREAMS is a surefire hit!
-- Barbara Bretton

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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
We can imagine the books we'd like to read, even if they have not yet been written, and we can imagine libraries full of books we would like to possess, even if they are well beyond our reacher, because we enjoy dreaming up a library that reflects every one of our interests and every one of our foibles--a library that, in its variety and complexity, fully reflects the reader we are.
Entering a library, I am always stuck by the way in which a certain vision of the world is imposed upon the reader through its categories and its order.
I had a library of maybe 1,000 books in my room in Buenos Aires. I did have the sense that everything there was organised in the right way. You'll probably think I needed serious psychiatric treatment, but there were times when I would not buy a book because I knew it wouldn't fit one of the categories into which I had divided the library.
It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a louder, clearer, more durable library of the banned, looted, plundered, shredded or curtailed.
Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.
Every death is like the burning of a library.
I acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa - where today it is rightly said that when a griot dies, it is as if a library has burned to the ground.
This is *our* Universe, our museum of wonder and beauty, our cathedral.
Art is, nowadays, our new religion and museums are our cathedrals.

Barbara Bretton famous quotes

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