Allegations that President Clinton pardoned Marc Rich partly in return for donations to his presidential library have raised questions about the value of such institutions and the federal appropriations that support them. – Robert Dallek
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
‘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
I remember visits to the local libraries and getting my own library cards as things of rite-of-passage significance. – Richard K. Morgan
During my long study sessions in the library, I found myself watching YouTube videos during study breaks. – Ray William Johnson
I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog. – Sandra Cisneros
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
It’s important to make clear to all the schools at Harvard the central role of the library. – Robert Darnton
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. – Samuel Johnson
There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry. – Rita Dove
My mom used to tell me that the most valuable thing she owned was her library card. We were poor, but that’s not what she was talking about. My mom knew that education opened doors and opened minds. – Richard Carmona
I was diagnosed with diabetes at age 18. I didn’t know what it was, so I went to the library and looked it up. – Ron Santo
Is there anything so delicious as the first exploration of a great library – alone – unwatched? – Richard Jefferies
Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don’t have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city. – Rabindranath Maharaj
Thanks to modern technology, we now can deliver every text in every research library to every citizen in our country, and to everyone in the world. If we fail to do so, we are not living up to our civic duty. – Robert Darnton
I basically did all the library research for this book on Google, and it not only saved me enormous amounts of time but actually gave me a much richer offering of research in a shorter time. – Thomas Friedman
Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay. – Zadie Smith
The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential. – Zadie Smith
When I go to a premiere I like to borrow lovely clothes and shoes from designers. It’s like the library: if you return them in good condition, you get to borrow more. I’m very lucky. – Sarah Jessica Parker
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
The library helps lower- and middle-income people – immigrants – get their shot at the American dream. – Stephen A. Schwarzman
We had library books in our house, but not our own. So you had 14 days to read them. There would be eight books a fortnight in our house and I’d read as many of those as I could. – Sue Townsend
I had a terrible fear of not being normal – of not seeming normal. So I went to the library and read every psychology book I could find. Anything about how normal people behave. – Woody Norris
For thousands and thousands of American kids, libraries are the only safe place they can find to study, a haven free from the dangers of street or the numbing temptations of television. As schools cut back services, the library looms even more important to countless children. – Scott Turow
My father was in the Army and we moved around a lot, and one of my favorite places was the library. – Suzan-Lori Parks
Just as it can be addictive to be in a real world bookstore or library, it’s the same on the Web. – Trip Adler