Kevin Barry Quotes

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

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.

My passion for books has changed my life.

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.

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.

May books spread the world over!

Libraries raised me.

Books are challenging and inspirational to me.

A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.

My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve.

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.

Writing isn't necessarily about what one knows but what one wants to know.

There will always be books as long as I am mentally capable of it.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

Yeah, because I think it's more important just to inspire people to wake up one day and pick up a book and start feeling it out for themselves.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way.

Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries.

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.

Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.

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.

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