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I find it incredible and outrageous that public and school libraries are being forced to close - we'll all pay the price in the long term. -- Anthony Browne
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. -- Katherine Paterson
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. -- Arthur Ashe
Every child in American should have access to a well-stocked school library. -- Laura Bush
It's important to make clear to all the schools at Harvard the central role of the library. -- Robert Darnton
A lot of my travel is at least partly work, visiting schools and libraries, especially in France. -- Quentin Blake
I got kicked out in grade school because I staged a riot because I wanted more library time. -- Bitsie Tulloch
The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry. -- Lynda Barry
In library science school, back in the years of glowing green non-graphical screens and protocols called Archie and Veronica, I wrote Internet documentation. -- Elizabeth McCracken
I was a library rat and a bookworm. I read all the time. I walked to school reading books. I read under my desk. -- Chelsea Cain
In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes citizenship possible, even what makes America great. -- Karen DeCrow
Like a lot of inwardly drawn young people, I spent a lot of time in libraries. At my high school, I often spent my lunch breaks there. -- Henry Rollins
Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them. -- Nicholas Meyer
I discovered Deborah Ellis's books in the school library after my head teacher encouraged me to go beyond the school curriculum and look for books I might enjoy. -- Malala Yousafzai
Like most of my friends in school, I was a member of multiple circulating libraries; and all of us, to begin with, borrowed and read the same things. -- Aravind Adiga
I got into Kiss before I got into anybody. The first thing I heard was 'Detroit Rock City.' I heard it in the school library, where I lived. -- Brian Posehn
My mother brought us to the library every week, and I read a lot. That's what kept me company. I went from school to school, but there was always reading. -- Julianne Moore
Schools across India do not have teachers, libraries, playing grounds and even toilets. I do not want to see empty classrooms, empty libraries. I do not want to see cattle grazing on fields meant to be cricket or football grounds. -- Sachin Tendulkar
What I would like to do is make sure every primary school child has a library card, so where parents don't get their children library cards, we'll see if we can get schools to step in and make sure that every child has one. -- Malorie Blackman
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
It was 1953, and I was still at school. I'd borrowed a silent French film from the library for my 9.5mm projector. It was by Jean Epstein, and it was awful. So I rang the library and asked if they had anything else. They said they had 'Napoleon Bonaparte and the French Revolution.' -- Kevin Brownlow
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