Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries. — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
“Fiction has two uses. Firstly, it’s a gateway drug to reading. The drive to know what happens next, to want to turn… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Of all the places I have walked into, libraries must be the most magical. Have you ever opened the cover of a… — Kimberly Long Cockroft Copy Share Image
I don't want to see libraries close; I want to find local solutions that will make them sustainable. — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Our libraries are valuable centers of education, learning and enrichment for people of all ages. In recent years, libraries have taken on… — Jodi Rell Copy Share Image
There's this long tradition of... even 'Where The Wild Things Are,' which many people consider the best kids' picture book of all… — Henry Selick Copy Share Image
Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation. — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
“Her library is a meeting place for all who love books. They discuss matters of the world and matters of the spirit.” — Jeanette Winter Copy Share Image
“A book is read one page at a time. A shelf is read one book at a time. A library is read… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
“It was a common complaint amongst the Arts students that their library was in dire need of refurbishment. To call the old… — Erin Lawless Copy Share Image
“What is more important to a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it exists." [… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
“Here was the same murmuring quiet, broken only by an occasional whisper, the faint thud of a librarian stamping books or overdue… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'm grateful that I've enjoyed the support of libraries, bookshops and institutional funders. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“When reading you have the opportunity to pause for thought & spark your imagination. It develops intellect. Nothing more threatening to a… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Living in Edinburgh, I consider myself particularly lucky - we have the biggest book festival in the world, a plethora of fascinating… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“We were very much a reading family, but we were a borrow-a-book-from-the-library family more than a bookshelves-full-of-books family. My parents valued books,… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
“I like libraries. It’s a comfort that knowledge can be saved for so long.” — Scarlet Jackson Pearce Copy Share Image
“I’m completely library educated. I’ve never been to college. I went down to the library when I was in grade school in… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It should be said upfront that I totally dig people who work in bookstores and libraries. They love books, and I love… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
“Libraries are always bigger on the inside because every book has an entire word inside of it.” — Robert Arger Copy Share Image
“About the library," he whispered. He took out the pencil stub from his pocket and poised it over the page. "Will you… — Laura Whitcomb Copy Share Image
I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
I remember visits to the local libraries and getting my own library cards as things of rite-of-passage significance. — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
“A library is a sacred place where the voices of the ancients can still be heard if we but give them the… — James Rozoff Copy Share Image
