Court Quote by Arthur Ashe

Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The…

— Arthur Ashe

I spent my life in the library reading books.

— Michael Caine

As a child I spent a lot of time at the library.

— Tracy Chapman

Public libraries were a huge source of comfort and joy for me when I was growing up. I still spend time there.

— Hong Chau

Libraries made me - as a reader, as a writer, and as a human being.

— Laurie R. King

You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have loved libraries.

— Ray Bradbury

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor…

— H. P. Lovecraft

I grew up having the library as the best place ever. I spent a lot of weekends there as a kid - my parents…

— Karin Slaughter

The founding of libraries was like constructing more public granaries, amassing reserves against a spiritual winter which by certain signs, in spite of myself,…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Many years ago, when I was just about as complete a failure as one can become, I began to spend a good deal of…

— Og Mandino

Libraries are places that house our dreams, our fantasies, our thirst for adventure.

— Nicholas Sparks

Libraries aren't in the real world, after all. They're places apart, sanctuaries of pure thought. In this way I can go on living on…

— Paul Auster