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Every child in American should have access to a well-stocked school library.
Oct 1, 2025
...I spent many, many hours in...libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.
Access to a school library results in more reading.
School libraries are the foundations of our culture – not luxuries.
Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.
When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.
What can I say? Librarians rule.
A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.
A library is a hospital for the mind.” - Anonymous
In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.
The BBC's aim, along with schools, libraries and literacy groups, to involve more people in reading groups is an exciting idea and one that I hope will keep readers all over the UK exploring and sharing the wonderful world of books.
When I was a young boy, I loved spending hours in St. Franics Xavier's school library at Saint Louis University. The feel of the books in my hands and the magical new worlds I discovered always drew me back to that fantastic place. Each time I visited, I could expect to find a new adventure and from time to time use my imagination to revisit my favorite place and enjoy Green Eggs and Ham in a house, with a mouse, on a train, on a plane, in a box, with a fox.
Words are the voice of the heart.
Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries.
At some point, sitting in the school library, during reading period, I looked up from my leopard print hardcover composition notebook where I was scribbling a derivative [John Ronald Reuel ] Tolkien epic full of purple prose in tiny handwriting and thought to myself, "Damn! I am a writer! How did that happen?".
Larger school library collections and longer hours increase circulation.
When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
I recall that I had a terrible struggle finding anything antireligious in the school libraries.But many years later my family moved into a house where a woman had left a box of books containing 20 volumes on the history of the Inquisition. I found out there was a word for people like me: "heretic." I was kind of delighted to find I had an identity.
I once stole a book. It was really just the once, and at the time I called it borrowing. It was 1970, and the book, I could see by its lack of date stamps, had been lying unappreciated on the shelves of my convent school library since its publication in 1945.
When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
Tis the good reader that makes the good book.
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
The more you read, the more things you will know.
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
Do you know that if you take the books in an average school library and stretched out all those words into a single line, the line would go all the way around the world? Actually, I made that up, but doesn't it sound like it should be true?
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
The library, I believe, is the last of our public institutions to which you can go without credentials. You don't even need the sticker on your windshield that you need to get into the public beach. All you need is the willingness to read.
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
He kissed me for a long moment, holding my shoulders, perhaps to keep me from pressing my whole body against his. Then he tried to lift my bag. "My God," he said. "What happened?" "I found out one may check out twenty books at a time from the school library.
A library should be like a pair of open arms.
It's easy to blame the nature-deficit disorder on the kids' or the parents' back, but they also need the help of urban planners, schools, libraries and other community agents to find nature that's accessible.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Children have to have access to books, and a lot of children can't go to a store and buy a book. We need not only our public libraries to be funded properly and staffed properly, but our school libraries. Many children can't get to a public library, and the only library they have is a school library.
My mother and my father were illiterate immigrants from Russia. When I was a child they were constantly amazed that I could go to a building and take a book on any subject. They couldn't believe this access to knowledge we have here in America. They couldn't believe that it was free.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.