Sophie Divry Quotes & Sayings

...my colleagues upstairs, in their huge ground floor space with their big windows and perfectly ordered shelves, they're so comfortable sitting there alongside their coffee machines, that they actually talk out loud about how nice it would be in a library without readers. Like some teacher's dream of a school with no pupils. But what would be the point of us then? Oh, yes, it would be in perfect order. A mathematical masterpiece, really shipshape, our library. But what would be the point if nobody came along to disturb it? ...that's all I do want, to be asked a question, to be disturbed, just a bit. — Sophie Divry

When I'm reading, I'm never alone, I have a conversation with the book. — Sophie Divry

To all those men and women who will always find a place for themselves in a library more easily than in society, I dedicate this entertainment. — Sophie Divry

People apologize too much, everyone's afraid of giving offence and it leads to literature being written for babies. Low-brow rubbish. That's not the way to become an adult. — Sophie Divry

And in a library, one should never draw attention to oneself. — Sophie Divry

The only thing that consoles me is to be surrounded by people as depressed as I am. The readers down here, they're seriously depressed and that cheers me up. You yourself for instance, if I can put this politely, you don't exactly look like a bundle of laughs. No, don't pretend, I can see right through you. — Sophie Divry

I prefer the company of books. When I'm reading, I'm never alone, I have a conversation with the book. It can be very intimate. Perhaps you know this feeling yourself? The sense that you're having an intellectual exchange with the author, following his or her train thought and you accompany each other for weeks on end. — Sophie Divry

To know your way round a library is to master the whole of culture, i.e. the whole world. — Sophie Divry

I prefer the company of books. — Sophie Divry

Love, for me, is something I find in books. You're never alone if you are surrounded by books — Sophie Divry

Book and reader, if they meet up at the right moment, it can make sparks fly, set you alight, change your life. It can, I promise you. — Sophie Divry

Culture for rich people doesn't come till later, it creeps up on them, and it's not well regarded. — Sophie Divry

That's what sofas are for: sit down, drink a cup of tea, talk of literature. At least that's how I see it. — Sophie Divry