Community Quote by Luis Valdez

Libraries are not just places where people go read a book, but places where an immigrant goes to take English lessons and where folks…

— Matthew Desmond

I spent the first few years of my life in a smallish community in Queens. Back in those early days, kids could roam the…

— Jonathan Kellerman

libraries are fascinating places: sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about exotic places…

— Umberto Eco

Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the…

— Rabindranath Maharaj

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

— Hong Chau

The library takes me away from my everyday life and allows me to see other places and learn to understand other people unlike myself.

— Gloria Estefan

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

I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning.

— Scott Turow

“The great unsold truth of libraries is that people need them not because they’re about study and solitude, but because they’re about connection. Connection…

— Bella Bathurst

Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public…

— Jerzy Kosinski

A great library is one nobody notices because it is always there, and always has what people need.

— Vicki Myron

I grew up in a small town with a very small library. But the books in the library opened a large place in my…

— Marion Dane Bauer