“Your library is your portrait.”

“Nagiko, I am waiting for you. Meet me at the library. Any library. Every library. Yours, Jerome.”

Peter Greenaway (1942) British film director

“All of the life-changing awesome
words and pictures and ideas
inside your library are useless
without just one word outside
your library: Open.”

Mo Willems (1968) American children's illustrator and writer

“America, why are your libraries full of tears?”

Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) American poet

“Shut not your doors to me proud libraries.”

Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist

“A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.”

Germaine Greer (1939) Australian feminist author

“There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.”

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer

“Library-denigrators, pay heed: suggesting that the Internet is a viable substitute for libraries is like saying porn could replace your wife.”

Joanne Harris (1964) British author

“If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

“your handwriting. the way you walk. which china pattern you choose. it's all giving you away. everything you do shows your hand. everything is a self portrait. everything is a diary.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Diary