Robin Sloan Quotes

I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I'd go and work my way through the children's area.

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

Public libraries were a huge source of comfort and joy for me when I was growing up. I still spend time there.

As a kid, I used to go to the library and take out all the art books.

And if you are a parent, introduce your children to their neighborhood library. It will give them a real sense of independence to have their own library card and enjoy borrowing books.

My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers. Every two weeks, he'd take me to our local branch library and pull books off the shelf for me, stacking them up in my arms - 'Have you read this? And this? And this?'

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.

Libraries raised me.

As a child, I spent a lot of time at the library.

Reading is as much a part of life as any part, and it's life itself. And it allows us to live other lives that we might not have lived if we hadn't picked up those books.

But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library.

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.

Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.

Libraries are where we learn that we can live our lives through books.

One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer.

Books were the window from which I looked out of a rather meager and decidedly narrow room onto a rich and wonderful universe. I loved the look and feel of books, even the smell... Libraries were treasure houses. I always entered them with a slight thrill of disbelief that all their endless riches were mine for the borrowing.

I grew up in a household without a TV. We lived next door to a library for a while, and at one point, I checked out all the books in the fairy tale section. I remember the librarian's quiet smile as I'd bring back one stack and exchange it for another.

I grew up in a house with very few books.

Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred temple, books might safely reside.

Libraries are where it all begins.

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

I came from a house full of books, so I took reading for granted. I was an outdoorsy little kid, too, so I got the best of both worlds by taking books up trees and reading there.

When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.