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I always have to go out to work even if it's just a desk somewhere or an office or the British Library. -- David Morrissey
If I'm researching something strange and rococo, I'll go to the London Library or the British Library and look it up in books. -- Ben Schott
London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want, really. -- David Attenborough
I work three days at home, and two days in the British Library or the London Library, just to get out of the house and hide from the children. -- David Nicholls
My mum was a children's librarian, so I spent a lot of time in the library. My reading life, because of my mum's work, was evenly split between American, Canadian, Australian and British authors. -- Eleanor Catton
Too much research can be the writer's enemy. You can spend days on end in the British Library or prowling the streets with a Dictaphone, and it's easy to convince yourself that you're working hard. Often, it can be an excuse not to work; a classic displacement activity. -- Mark Billingham
I wanted to be a great white hunter, a prospector for gold, or a slave trader. But then, when I was eight, my parents sent me to a boarding school in South Africa. It was the equivalent of a British public school with cold showers, beatings and rotten food. But what it also had was a library full of books. -- Wilbur Smith
Read properly, fewer books than a hundred would suffice for a liberal education. Read superficially, the British Museum Library might still leave the student a barbarian. -- Alfred Richard Orage

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