Aisle Quote by Rita Dove

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 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

The library was one enormous room, with long, high metal shelves and the perfect quiet that libraries provide for anyone looking for an answer.

— Anonymous

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

Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.

— Michael Caine

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

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

To sit in a big library amongst books and students, that was pretty cool. It was a novel experience for me.

— Jonathan Taylor Thomas

“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

There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering.

— Jacqueline Woodson

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

I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the…

— Maya Angelou