“Read to live another life, even if only for a chapter.” — Jordan Urtso

“A school library is like the Bat Cave: it’s a safe fortress in a chaotic world, a source of knowledge and the lair of a superhero. True, the superhero is more likely to be wearing a cardigan than a batsuit, but still…”

-Tom Angleberger

"The right length for a detective story is fifty thousand words. I know it is considered by some publishers as too short. But if your book runs to more than that, I think you usually find that it would have been better if it had been shorter."

- Agatha Christie

“A library is a house of hope. It’s a place where we all, whatever our situation, can feed our ideas and develop our dreams.”

-Doug Wilhelm

“The contents of a library can take you further than your own imagination could begin to imagine. To open a book is to open your mind.

– Amberle Cianne

“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.”

– Mason Cooley

"A library outranks any other thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert."

-Andrew Carnegie

"Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life. Libraries change lives for the better."

-Sidney Sheldon

"In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us to swim."

-Linton Weeks

"Google can bring you back 100,000 answers, a librarian can bring you back the right one." 

-Neil Gaiman

"A library is a good place to soften solitude; a place where you feel part of a conversation that has gone on for hundreds and hundreds of years even when you’re all alone."

― Susan Orlean

"I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library."

― Isaac Asimov

"I'll belong to libraries wherever I go.
Maybe eventually I'll belong to libraries on other planets."
—Jo Walton

“Books may well be the only true magic.”
— Alice Hoffman

"The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world."

— Rita Dove

“A library card is the start of a lifelong adventure.”

 –Lilian Jackson Braun

“Books break the shackles of time –
proof that humans can work magic.”

– Carl Sagan

"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free."

— Frederick Douglass

"When I got my library card, that’s when my life began."

– Rita Mae Brown

"A library is infinity under a roof."
—Gail Carson Levine