Local Library Quotes

#1. My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self-fulfilling prophecy?

Jodi Picoult

#2. Libraries have a PR problem - or at least that's what they call it when no one under the age of 40 walks through the door. To bring in a younger crowd, the paper pushers have turned to tech to bring in the public. DVDs, CDs and, yes, even videogames are hitting the shelves of your local library.

Rob Manuel

#3. Books were not looked upon as things unobtainable due to economic circumstances or class status. My grandfather stole an entire set of Dicken's from the local library.

Bob Hartley

#4. The greatest knowledge a person can possess is the address of the local library.

Albert Einstein

#5. I got these big coffee table books about Chinese opera from the local library, and I loved looking through them. I loved studying the intricate costumes and figuring out how to 'cartoonify' them.

Gene Luen Yang

#6. 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

#7. They say there is no 'free lunch' in life. But there are free books! I still can't believe I can go to my local library and get just abut any book in the world - and I don't have to pay a dime!! It's amazing! The library is truly the greatest invention of our civilization.

Dan Gutman

#8. I have always been an obsessive reader - I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books taller than I was.

Lisa Kleypas

#9. I spent many hours ensconced in the local library, reading - nay, devouring - book after book after book. Books were my soul's delight.

Nikki Grimes

#10. I didn't even enter a bookshop until I was 14 because I couldn't afford books until I got my first Saturday job, but by the time I was six or seven, I spent practically every Saturday down my local library reading as much as I could and getting out as many books as I could.

Malorie Blackman

#11. Support your local library. Get a library card. Pay your goddamn fines. Man up for Christ's sake. Be a little responsible. And if there's any shushing to be done, let it be done by a professional. Me.

Don Borchert

#12. 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

#13. I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books.

Tom T. Hall

#14. Want to inspire your kids to read more? Try giving them kids some money to spend just on a book. Take them to a bookstore and let them browse and pick out one book that they will love. Or try going to a local library for a few hours and just let your kids sift through books that interest them.

Melanie Kirk

#15. I wanted to be a librarian from a very young age. Some of my earliest memories are being taken to the local library. I ended up working as a bookseller. Becoming a writer was the logical offshoot of being a reader.

Michael Scott

#16. A few days earlier, Adriana and I had been browsing books at the local library. I happened to turn around and look at her ... and that was it. The man who "loved to laugh" in Mary Poppins had nothing on us.

Gina Marinello-Sweeney

#17. My childhood was spent in my local library in a San Diego suburb. It's where I became a writer - by 1st becoming a reader!

Tess Gerritsen

#18. Public libraries are the sole community centers left in America. The degree to which a branch of the local library is connected to the larger culture is a reflection of the degree to which the community itself is connected to the larger culture.

Russell Banks

#19. The computer was the newest addition to the local library, and quickly had more viruses than the local whore house.

Giles Curtis

#20. Without the local library in my neighborhood, I don't think I would have grown up to be a writer or a teacher.

Sharon M. Draper

#21. On January 15, I was traveling with four library books, including a copy of Just Culture, a book about safety issues. I later called my local library to apologize for leaving the books on the plane, and they agreed not to charge me for replacing them.

Chesley B. Sullenberger, III

#22. All my books take a long time to research. I spend several months researching before I start writing, and in the middle of writing I often have to stop and look up stuff. At my local library, I am one of the best customers! The research takes several months.

Linda Sue Park

#23. I think it's incredible what you can find with just a quick trip down to your local library

Denise Hemphill

#24. Some archives and record offices are housed in your local museum or library; others have their own stand-alone building. Wherever they are, they are a treasure trove.

Kate Williams

#25. I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I'd go and work my way through the children's area.

Neil Gaiman

#26. My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers. Every two weeks, he'd take me to our local branch library and pull books off the shelf for me, stacking them up in my arms - 'Have you read this? And this? And this?'

Janet Fitch

#27. I remember visits to the local libraries and getting my own library cards as things of rite-of-passage significance.

Richard K. Morgan

#28. Libraries are, at heart, helpful and kind providers. It is hard for those who perhaps don't feel the need to visit their local libraries to understand what a vital service they provide for communities and individuals who do - and those who do are often the most vulnerable.

Robert Popple

#29. FedDev Ontario's investment in the Glanworth Branch Library has enhanced this unique landmark into an accessible learning hub for local community members. When we improve facilities, we are strengthening our communities and building a prosperous southern Ontario.

Gary Goodyear

#30. I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it.
[Patrick Ness slams library cuts (The Guardian, 23 June 2011)]

Patrick Ness

#31. But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library.

Andrew Wiles

#32. The first thing my family did when we moved was join the local church. The second was to go to the library and get library cards.

John Grisham

#33. As a child, recognizing my difference from other kids, I went to the local public library to try to better understand my reality. Back then, many library card catalogues didn't even list 'homosexuality' as a topic.

James McGreevey

#34. Library events scare me, as they provide refuge for local historians, fabulists, tellers of tall tales, historical reenactors, and even dream weavers. Not to mention the single most feared creature on the planet: the self-published poet

Joe Queenan

#35. 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

#36. My guess is (it will be) about 300 years until computers are as good as, say, your local reference library in search.

Craig Silverstein