Quotes by Library My father had a big brick cell phone, before anyone had a cell phone, because he was really just into that kind of thing - communication devices. I grew up between my father's laboratory and my mother's library. Rashid Johnson librarycommunicationmotherfather My mother introduced me to more academic-minded writers, Cornel West and Skip Gates. In her library, I came across, when I was very young, Harold Cruse's 'The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual,' which is like a bible of Negro intellectuals from Frederick Douglass to Amiri Baraka. Rashid Johnson melibrarymotherbible The end of 'Hollow City' left the peculiar children in a very precarious spot, and that's just where 'Library of Souls' begins. Ransom Riggs endcitylibrarychildren 'Library of Souls' is longer than 'Hollow City' by a considerable margin, but this time I was on the right track from the beginning, so I never had to start over. It took about 15 months, all told. Ransom Riggs citybeginninglibrarytime When I was 10, my father had to go to the local library to sign a release form stating that I was allowed to borrow books from the adult section. Terry Hayes booksgolibraryfather 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 librarygoldsongromantic Seeing that we were book enthusiasts, my mother began hauling my sister and me down to the Stanton Free Library on Tuesday afternoons, where I'd find two or three books to bring home. James Blaylock melibrarymotherhome Without the library, I would have been lost. Jesmyn Ward withoutbeenlibrarylost One of the reasons that I take such joy in being a trustee of the New York Public Library is the love of reading that I found as a child in the Saturday morning library events for preschoolers and first and second graders as I was growing up in Augusta, GA. Jessye Norman libraryjoymorninglove As a kid, I went from reading kids' books to reading science fiction to reading, you know, adult fiction. There was never any gap. YA was a thing when I was a teenager, but it was a library category, not a marketing category, and you never really felt like it was a huge section. John Allison youlibraryreadingscience The Bible is not just one book, but an entire library, with stories, songs, poetry, letters and history, as well as literature that might more obviously qualify as 'religious.' John Drane librarypoetrybiblehistory The government can still conduct clandestine searches of innocent people's private information such as library, medical, and financial records. This is wrong and should have been addressed in a true compromise. Jose Serrano librarymedicalgovernmentpeople 'Anna Karenina.' I read it in college. I was so engrossed that I couldn't stop reading it and neglected all my other studies. I would go to the library even on nice warm weekends and just lock myself up. I think that was the first time that I felt transformed by a book. Jonathan Dee myselflibrarytimebook Then I started checking out blues albums from the library and playing the harp along with them. John Goodman bluesplayingoutlibrary If your library is not 'unsafe', it probably isn't doing its job. John Berry yourdoingjoblibrary I was always the person in our class who was fascinated by new plays. I would go to the library all the time as new plays would come out. Joe Mantello newgolibrarytime 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 i-amlibraryseaschool 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 librarymotherhouselong I was obsessed with George Orwell for years. I remember going to the town library and having to put in interlibrary loan requests to get the compilation of his BBC radio pieces. I had to get everything he ever wrote. Jill Lepore everythinglibraryradioremember Sometimes I'm asked if I do research for my stories. The answer is yes and no. No, in the sense that I seldom plow through books at the library to gather material. Yes, in the sense that the first fifteen years of my life turned out to be one big research project. Jerry Spinelli my-lifelibraryresearchlife«4243444546474849505152»
