Adults Quote by Susan Sarandon

As a child, I loved to read books. The library was a window to the world, a pathway to worlds and people far from…

— Ed Bradley

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

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

My mom was a librarian, so I spent most of my childhood in libraries, learning to love their potential for imagination and knowledge.

— Amelia Dimoldenberg

I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where, for the first time in my life, I had…

— Karin Slaughter

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

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

I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to…

— Patrick Ness

Libraries are my passion in life. Before I became mayor (of Los Angeles), I used to sneak out here during lunchtime...and I'd go to…

— Richard Riordan

I read books when I was a kid, lots of books. Books always seemed like magic to me. They took you to the most…

— Pat Murphy

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

When I was growing up, my house was filled with books. My mother was an educator, and my father was a history buff, so…

— Jeff Kinney