The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
I have a home-school group with a couple of my friends. We switch off going to each others’ houses and going to the library to do art and stuff. It’s almost like our own little school – a really little school.
During my long study sessions in the library, I found myself watching YouTube videos during study breaks.
God bless Interlibrary Loan. I pay a lot of library fines. In the case of ‘A Single Shard,’ I was using books that hadn’t been checked out in 30 years, so I didn’t feel too bad.
I was lucky enough to have a mother who took me to the library – the public library – twice a week, Wednesdays and Saturdays. And also bought me books. And also read aloud to me.
First, this isn’t about telecommuting, because we still have offices that people will come to regularly when they need to brainstorm together, meet with clients, or do research in the library.
I’m scared to go to library. I’m scared John Wick will show up and break my leg again.
There’s not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library.
Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.
I wanted to sail when I was in grammar school and well remember memorizing the names of the sails from the Merriam-Webster’s ponderous dictionary in the library. Now I am actually at sea – as a passenger, of course, but at sea nevertheless – and bound for Ecuador.
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What is more important in a library than anything else – than everything else – is the fact that it exists.
