Where I grew up, we had the three TV networks, maybe two radio stations, no cable TV. We still had a long-distance party line in our neighborhood, so you could listen to all your neighbors' phone calls. We had a very small public library, and the nearest bookstore was an hour away. - Marc Andreessen If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library. - Tony Benn When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you. - Keith Richards I always carry a pistol when I go [to the New York Public Library]. Never did trust those stone lions. - Robert Bloch No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. - Samuel Johnson I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete educat...

He went through rooms he named as he discovered them, and which he hardly had time to appreciate before he'd flung open a door at the far end and plunged through.... and in the Library of All the Same Book he actually stopped to examine a few of the volumes, all titled Various , that lined the shelves. - Chris Adrian I do have a library of events I can talk about and I always expect to find a different point of view on it so even if I talk about the same event in the same town it's fresh. - Leo Kottke Words: repositories for singular realities which they then transform into memories in an anthology, magicians that change the face of reality by adorning it with the right to become memorable, to be placed in a library of memories. - Muriel Barbery The sea is nothing but a library of all the tears in history. - Lemony Snicket The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice o...

I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal. - Tom Clancy There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry. - Rita Dove I obtained a job at the Library of Congress. I loved books, so I felt at home. I was going to end up, I thought, majoring in English and teach at the college level. - Tom Glazer Some people say I have issues. I say those people need to expand their horizons because I don't have issues, I have the Library of Congress - Mira Grant The house I grew up in is one of a kind. It's a bibliophile's fantasy, and if the Library of Congress had a little brother who was a midget, you could find him residing in my parents' house. - Jarod Kintz

Being the evil undead wasn't fun anymore. For one thing, it was increasingly hard to get a library card. - Sharon Ashwood A library card is the start of a lifelong adventure. - Lilian Jackson Braun When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began. - Rita Mae Brown A library card is good to have, you can never have too much ID. - Stephen King Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives... and to the "good life", whatever it is and wherever it happens to be. - Hunter S Thompson Ever since we had arrived in the United States, my classmates kept asking me about magic carpets. - They don't exist-I always said. I was wrong. Magic carpets do exist. But they are called library cards. - Firoozeh Dumas You read a lot," said the behatted kvetch indicating the two novels he had open. He nod...