A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.
Arthur Baer
LibraryPressureBloodNewspaper
My dream was to have a Library of Congress catalogue number, that's all.
Frank McCourt
LibraryDreamCongressNumber
Every night, I was read to. Every Friday, we were taken to the library. I always received at least one book for my birthday. I have a few of them yet. Early on, I had my own collection of books. I loved to read. Still do.
Avi
BirthdayNightBookLibraryLoved
When I think about music in the future, I don't make a distinction between what's radio, what used to be the music library, and so on.
Daniel Ek
FutureMusicLibraryThinkRadio
The ancient media of speech and song and theater were radically reshaped by writing, though they were never entirely supplanted, a comfort perhaps to those of us who still thrill to the smell of a library.
Alison Gopnik
WritingSongLibraryMediaSpeech
I was teased if I brought my books home. I would take a paper bag to the library and put the books in the bag and bring them home. Not that I was that concerned about them teasing me - because I would hit them in a heartbeat. But I felt a little ashamed, having books.
Walter Dean Myers
HomeMeLibraryBagAshamedBring
'Forever Amber,' written by Kathleen Winsor in 1944, was banned in Boston at the time of its publication as obscene and offensive. This alone would have been enough to excite my interest, but in 1956, it was sitting inoffensively on the shelves of the small country library on the north shore of Oahu, Hawaii, where my family spent its summers.
Susanna Moore
FamilyAloneTimeSmallLibrary
My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
Umberto Eco
HomeSchoolMeLibraryWeekGrades
For those without money, the road to that treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.
Pete Hamill
MoneyImaginationRoadLibraryHouse
Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
HistoryLibraryTrySomethingOnly
Now, many public libraries want to lend e-books, not simply to patrons who come in to download, but to anybody with a reading device, a library card and an Internet connection. In this new reality, the only incentive to buy, rather than borrow, an e-book is the fact that the lent copy vanishes after a couple of weeks.
Scott Turow
ReadingLibraryRealityInternetNew
The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.
Maira Kalman
HomeIdeasLibrarySourceBooks
I've never been a collector - just a consumer - and these days unless a book is signed to me by another author, I don't normally have any qualms about passing it to a friend or donating it to the library.
Rick Riordan
FriendMeBookLibraryNeverDays
Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
Lady Bird Johnson
CommunityLibraryPlaceInterestAny
Is there anything so delicious as the first exploration of a great library - alone - unwatched?
Richard Jefferies
AloneGreatLibraryExploration
I wanted to sail when I was in grammar school and well remember memorizing the names of the sails from the Merriam-Webster's ponderous dictionary in the library. Now I am actually at sea - as a passenger, of course, but at sea nevertheless - and bound for Ecuador.
Jim Elliot
SeaSchoolI AmSailLibrarySails
As voters and taxpayers, we must demand that our local governments properly prioritize libraries. As citizens, we must invest in our library down the street so that the generations served by that library grow up to be adults who contribute not just to their local communities but to the world.
Karin Slaughter
WorldLibraryGrowDownStreetUp
An actress spends a lifetime observing people. You build up a mental library. No, not a library. Make that a repository.
Marian Seldes
PeopleLibraryYouBuildUpMental
Not long before my mother died, I found a long-lost portrait of Jane Franklin's granddaughter, Jane Flagg, aged nine - oil on canvas - in the basement of a public library not a dozen miles from my mother's house.
Jill Lepore
MotherLibraryPortraitLongHouse
When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
Isaac Asimov
GovernmentSocietyLibraryThinkWay
I love rare books. Not that I own a lot of them, mind you. You couldn't quite call me a rare-book collector. But I did once work in a rare-books library, and I wrote a novel about a rare book.
Lev Grossman
WorkLoveMindMeBookLibrary
Oh, I collect facts and quotes when I can't write, and I can't write most of the time. I do a little chance operation sometimes where I flip through outdated reference books to see if anything will strike me as beautiful or momentous. Library roulette, I call it.
Jenny Offill
BeautifulTimeMeChanceLibrary
My father had inklings of my cultural aspirations. He would take me to the library, things like that. But he wasn't one of those dads who had read George Orwell and was a member of the Communist party. We had no books at home.
Gary Kemp
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I love to get in the library and just spend days researching characters.
Jurnee Smollett-Bell
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