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

“A deserted library in the morning - there's something about it that really gets to me. All possible words and ideas are there, resting peacefully.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

“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 (1917–2007) American writer

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

Germaine Greer (1939) Australian feminist author

“Your library is your portrait.”

Holbrook Jackson (1874–1948) British journalist

“Your library is your portrait.”

Linda Fairstein (1947) American writer

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

Peter Greenaway (1942) British film director

“Don't just learn from God's Word, but believe it will change your life.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

“[Public] libraries should be open to all—except the censor.”

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America

“… the air a library and the record of every life lived, every sentence spoken, every word transmitted still reverberating within it.”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See