I was a library rat and a bookworm. I read all the time. I walked to school reading books. I read under my desk.
Chelsea Cain
TimeSchoolReadingLibraryDesk
When I was sixteen, I borrowed a copy of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' from the mobile library. Democrats and Republicans were standing for very different principles, and I could see which side was going to represent me.
James Carville
MeLibraryCopyPrinciplesSeeSide
You used to have to own a radio tower or television tower or printing press. Now all you have to have is access to an Internet cafe or a public library, and you can put your thoughts out in public.
Clay Shirky
ThoughtsLibraryInternetYouNow
Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.
Kate Mosse
LibraryStandBrickCherishWatch
I think for Amazon's customers, it offers a kind of addictive service - the ability to shop without leaving your house, the ability to read without going to a bookstore or a library.
Brad Stone
ServiceLibraryThinkHouseKind
I use my awards as doorstops. Others are in the office or in little cubbyholes in our library - they go between the books, because they actually look like arty pieces.
Helen McCrory
LibraryLookGoAwardsOfficeBooks
I got into Kiss before I got into anybody. The first thing I heard was 'Detroit Rock City.' I heard it in the school library, where I lived.
Brian Posehn
SchoolKissCityLibraryDetroit
People go back to the stuff that doesn't cost a lot of money and the stuff that you don't have to hand money to over and over again. Stuff that you get for free, stuff that your older brother gives you, stuff that you can get out of the local library.
Frank Black
MoneyBrotherPeopleFreeLibrary
Fridays after school, especially when the weather was lousy, Mom would take me to the library. She'd let me check out whatever I wanted, and I checked out a lot.
Anthony Doerr
SchoolMeMomWeatherLibraryShe
You don't go to the library and walk along and pick out a topic. You are riding the bus, or shopping at Safeway, and all of a sudden the idea comes to you.
Edward P. Jones
WalkShoppingLibraryYouGoRiding
I have a home-school group with a couple of my friends. We switch off going to each others' houses and going to the library to do art and stuff. It's almost like our own little school - a really little school.
Willow Shields
ArtSchoolLibraryFriendsGroup
I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts.
Walter Wager
LibraryWillAskDelusionSomeday
My children are as at home in the Port Elgin library as I used to be, and they've sat in the cinema seats where I sat with their aunt every Saturday afternoon, watching the matinee movies.
Susanna Kearsley
HomeChildrenLibrarySaturdayAunt
I came across 'The Song of Achilles' by Madeline Miller in one of the most romantic ways one can find a story. I was digging through a pile of used books at my local library when my hand gravitated toward its brilliant teal and glistening gold cover.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
RomanticGoldSongStoryLibrary
Like many science fiction lovers of my generation, I discovered Andre Norton on the shelves at the junior high's library.
Sherwood Smith
ScienceLibraryGenerationHighLike
My stepfather introduced me to The London Library when I was about 18; the clientele has definitely changed since then, but it is still a wonderful oasis in the middle of London.
Natascha McElhone
MeLibraryLondonWonderfulMiddle
We never had a giant library or owned a lot of commercial characters the way most studios did. And since we didn't have a lot of internal resources, we had to find ways to be inventive and resourceful, which I think is a healthy way to run a good business.
Toby Emmerich
GoodBusinessLibraryThinkFind
I discovered Deborah Ellis's books in the school library after my head teacher encouraged me to go beyond the school curriculum and look for books I might enjoy.
Malala Yousafzai
TeacherSchoolMeLibraryLookGo
A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
Norman Cousins
LifeEducationHistoryIdeasLibrary
Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
Karin Slaughter
StartBookLibraryThoughtKnowGot
Three times a year, there's Strategicon convention, and I go for the board games. It happens Presidents Day, Labor Day, and Memorial Day weekends. You go and take a look at the new board games and meet a couple of board game designers, and you can check out games you don't own from the library and then return them.
Rich Sommer
DayGameLibraryYearYouLook
That Moorish architecture is all over the place, of course. It affects me everywhere I see it, as it does so many people. But Brand Library was a special place to me, and I know I've paid homage to it many times in my drawings.
Jim Woodring
ArchitecturePeopleMeLibraryBrand
When I became a published writer, I said, 'Whatever I can do to help the libraries I want to do,' so all of my book tours since then have involved me coming to a library and talking about how important libraries are for a community.
CommunityMeBookLibraryHelpSaid
We live in the country, and I have a huge library there. When we go to London for the winter I never know which books to take. I never know what I am going to need. That's the only disadvantage.
Mordecai Richler
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