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“It may be that I link every library to that first one - to my early childhood experience of drawing on the floor near…

— Siri Hustvedt

It's funny that we think of libraries as quiet demure places where we are shushed by dusty, bun-balancing, bespectacled women. The truth is libraries…

— Paula Poundstone

To those with ears to hear, libraries are really very noisy places. On their shelves we hear the captured voices of the centuries-old conversation…

— Timothy Healy

Libraries serve the information needs of all of the people in the community — not just the loudest, not just the most powerful, not…

— Judith Krug

“We have an obligation to support libraries. To use libraries, to encourage others to use libraries, to protest the closure of libraries. If you…

— Neil Gaiman

Libraries are not just for reading in, but for sociable thinking, exploring, exchanging ideas and falling in love. They were never silent. Technology will…

— Ben Macintyre

I think libraries give the feeling that people are there to work. It's a little bit like an artist's colony in the sense that…

— Stephen McCauley

“Libraries are not, or at least should not be, engines of productivity. If anything, they should slow people down and seduce them with the…

— Barbara Fister

“In a few minutes I heard the books' voices: a low, steady, unsupressible hum. I'd heard it many times before. I've always had a…

— Martha Cooley

“An even more pointed example of the the power of the silence tabu in libraries occurred in Duluth in 1981. The police were pursuing…

— Ray B. Browne

“A library is a sacred place where the voices of the ancients can still be heard if we but give them the required silence.”

— James Rozoff

“A silent Library is a sad Library. A Library without patrons on whom to pile books and tales and knowing and magazines full of…

— Catherynne M. Valente