Britain Quote by Zadie Smith

A library is a home filled with our stories. On every shelf, we see ourselves, experience our collective conscious, describe our dreams and our…

— Adriana Trigiani

A library is a gateway to others' minds, hearts, and lives.

— Tamora Pierce

“Libraries are not, or at least should not be, engines of productivity. If anything, they should slow people down and seduce them with the…

— Barbara Fister

A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences.

— William Osler

“In principle and reality, libraries are life-enhancing palaces of wonder.”

— Gail Honeyman

“A little library, growing larger every year, is an honorable part of a man's possessions. A library is not a luxury. It is one…

— Henry Ward Beecher

“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

“Libraries are innately subversive institutions, born of the radical notion that every member of society deserves free, high-quality access to knowledge and culture.”

— Matt Finch

“A library is more than a brick and mortar building filled with delicious books. It is also a community of people who live to…

— ALA

“Libraries are very special spaces, spaces where people come together in separate but joint pursuits of knowledge, of learning. Libraries are the heartbeats of…

— Alan Bennett

No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It's such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library system returns…

— Karin Slaughter

A library is an ever-growing entity; it multiples seemingly unaided, it reproduces itself by purchase, theft, borrowings, gifts, by suggesting gaps through association, by…

— Alberto Manguel