Crime Quote by Abid Hussain Library Officer

“The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.”

— Bertrand Russell

“Prison is a still point in a turning world, and it is very easy to remain in the same place in jail while the…

— Nelson Mandela

“All across America public libraries were, and are, being shut down, while prisons-with libraries-were, and are, being built. This has been a choice the…

— Avi Steinberg

“Your mind is your playground or your prison, and you get to choose which one it will be.”

— Sanjo Jendayi

“I was a prisoner, but the prison library was excellent. On one table in the corner, I found an e-reader with a note that…

— Alex Flinn

“So what indeed! The lesson I myself learned over and over again when teaching at the college and then the prison was the uselessness…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“To me, nothing can be more important than giving children books, It's better to be giving books to children than drug treatment to them…

— Fran Lebowitz

“You came out of prison incredibly buff or with an addiction to paperback novels.”

— Heather O'Neill

“You are in your own prison.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Not all prisons have bars. You should know that better than anyone, Princess.”

— Amanda Hocking

“Libraries always remind me that there are good things in this world.”

— Lauren Ward