After school Quote by Lynda Barry

As a kid, I used to go to the library and take out all the art books.

— Cheech Marin

I got hit by the bug of reading - not via a person, but via the one-room library in our small town. I remember…

— Anita Shreve

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

— Tracy Chapman

Like a lot of inwardly drawn young people, I spent a lot of time in libraries. At my high school, I often spent my…

— Henry Rollins

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 was a voracious reader and the library fed my curiosity, imagination and my soul. I read by the shelf - biographies, fantasy -…

— Susan Sarandon

The library was like a second home. Or maybe more like a real home, more than the place I lived in. By going every…

— Haruki Murakami

The library would've cheered me up, most days. I loved the heavy oaken tables, the high walls stacked with books to the ceiling, the…

— Claudia Gray

Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted…

— Rita Dove

As a shy, introverted, scholarly child (long ago) I don't know what I would have done without libraries! My family moved often. I was…

— Lois Lowry

For the best part of my childhood I visited the local library three or four times a week, hunching in the stacks on a…

— David Nicholls

“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