Book Quote by Richard Riordan

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

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

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

I have a passion for libraries. They are potentially real community centers.

— Moshe Safdie

Libraries shelter the spirit, provide food for the mind, and answer the questions raised by the problems of life. They have been the home…

— Roberta Gellis

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

— Nicholas Sparks

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

Libraries are where we learn that we can live our lives through books.

— Kevin Barry

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

Libraries are where most of us really fall in love with books, where we can browse and choose on our own. Its really one…

— Kim Boykin

My childhood was spent in my local library in a San Diego suburb. It's where I became a writer - by 1st becoming a…

— Tess Gerritsen