A library is a home filled with our stories. On every shelf, we see ourselves, experience our collective conscious, describe our dreams… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
When I was a child in the Navy during World War II, I was perennially grateful to the armed services libraries for… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
What would it be like to live in a library of melted books. With sentences streaming over the floor and all the… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“If every kid who said he was going to the library, when he was really off doing something else, actually went to… — Ron Koertge Copy Share Image
I once called construction companies to bid on an addition to the school library so that there would suddenly be people outside,… — Howie Mandel Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to my father argue politics into the night and taking trips every Saturday to the Hood River library… — Dale T. Mortensen Copy Share Image
“Empowered and knowledgeable, wild readers know they can walk into any library or bookstore and find something to read. Our students must… — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
Her library filled her bookshelves and then overflowed into waist-high stacks of books everywhere, piled haphazardly against the walls. If just one… — John Green Copy Share Image
A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
“It may be that I link every library to that first one - to my early childhood experience of drawing on the… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
When I was 11 or 12, I was really bored with everything on my summer reading list. It was all happy, middle-grade… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
I grew up in the 'hood around prostitutes, drug dealers, killers, and gangbangers, but I also grew up juxtaposed: On the doorknob… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
I prefer the gradual path My feeling is that mythic forms reveal themselves gradually in the course of your life if you… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I dropped out of school, but I didn't drop out of life. I would leave the house each morning and go to… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
If there's a 13- or 14-year old kid who is yearning for something beyond the social forces in his own world, in… — Gary Ross Copy Share Image
Somhow those Ten Men -- at the time they were called Recruiters, of course -- discovered that Constance had been at the… — Trenton Lee Stewart Copy Share Image
Libraries promote the sharing of knowledge, connecting people of all ages with valuable information resources. These dynamic and modern institutions, and the… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“You and I both worry about what it means to put our personal libraries onto one gadget and then what would happen… — Jason Merkoski Copy Share Image
It is with books as with the fires of our grates, everybody borrows a light from his neighbor to kindle his own,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
We give scholarships to high school kids and a new library of books to every preschool child in the county where I… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to have a mother who took me to the library - the public library - twice a week,… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I wanted to sail when I was in grammar school and well remember memorizing the names of the sails from the Merriam-Webster's… — Jim Elliot Copy Share Image
You see, I don't belive that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, that has been the main reason… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
When someone tell me they illegally downloaded one of my audiobooks I think, Thanks a lot, Pal. When someone tells me they… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“the chaos of the world that counted people as different levels of worthy, the Library served all equally. All genders, races, levels… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
“Libraries are very special spaces, spaces where people come together in separate but joint pursuits of knowledge, of learning. Libraries are the… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
If it is noticed that much of my outside work concerns itelf with libraries, there is an extremely good reason for this.… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
Our great function is to inform or to inspire, or to please; to give to the public in the quickest and cheapest… — Melvil Dewey Copy Share Image
Let me tell you this, if I had wanted to have a library of audio and videotapes of Bill Clinton, I could… — Gennifer Flowers Copy Share Image
“Libraries are innately subversive institutions, born of the radical notion that every member of society deserves free, high-quality access to knowledge and… — Matt Finch Copy Share Image
Do you know that if you take the books in an average school library and stretched out all those words into a… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
I don't speak French, but I took it for five years growing up. So, if I were in a situation where I… — Eugene Mirman Copy Share Image
There are some places you love with your heart, and there are some places that you love with your mind- the places… — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
Seeing one's books on the shelf tells you so much about the way somebody has, over the years, put together their private… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I started reading. I read everything I could get my hands on...By the time I was thirteen I had read myself out… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
That you can go anywhere in America and get a book from a library is just the most amazing thing in the… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I don't know what your childhood was like, but we didn't have much money. We'd go to a movie on a Saturday… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
Books were not looked upon as things unobtainable due to economic circumstances or class status. My grandfather stole an entire set of… — Bob Hartley Copy Share Image
I went to Europe to live in 1961. I'd never have written Julian if it hadn't been for the sequestered life that… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
