I like libraries. It's a comfort that knowledge can be save for so long. That what we learn can be passed on.

I walked inside and paused for a moment to breathe in the scent of paper and dust—the perfumes of knowledge.

Libraries should be open to all - except the censor.[Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

anyone who’s worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.

Her library is a meeting place for all who love books. They discuss matters of the world and matters of the spirit.

Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library.

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

Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism."[Libraries on the Front Lines, ALA interview 2011]

He liked bookstores, and libraries too. They had a sacred, peaceful hush, like graveyards without the shadow of death.

Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.

They should be taking bonuses from bankers, not library books from schoolchildren. What kind of society are we building?

I was born, and then I was quietly resentful of that fact for a few years...but then I went to a library and it was okay.

There wasn't a place I could think of that was more magical than a building bursting with books and stories and words...

All my life, the library has always been one of my favorite places to go. (Larry Brown: A Writer's Life by Jean W. Cash)