I didn't belong to the sort of family where the children's classics were laid on. I went to the public library and read everything I could get my hands on.

The public library is where I studied. It's where my grandfather taught himself English.

The public library system of the United States is worth preserving.

My first memory of the public library is of lugging home a volume of Norse myths as heavy as a thunder-god's hammer.

I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read.

For those without money, the road to that treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.