Janet Fitch Quotes

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

It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.

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.

My father was in the Army and we moved around a lot, and one of my favorite places was the library.

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.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

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

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'd always been a big reader. I credit my mom for giving me my love of reading.

Libraries raised me.

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

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

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 father encouraged me to work in the library, just because it was the world that he knew. But I also wanted to do it. I also wanted to work in the library and be part of the library somehow, because it represented a world that really wasn't represented in my home, and I wanted it to be.

I fell in love with reading when I was allowed to choose whatever books I wanted to check out of the library.

When I was young, my parents had a library in our living room. I was always free to browse and read.

When I was 14, I saw a library for the first time.

In some ways I grew up in the public library in Troy, Michigan.

Seeing that we were book enthusiasts, my mother began hauling my sister and me down to the Stanton Free Library on Tuesday afternoons, where I'd find two or three books to bring home.

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

There are a million great books out there if you just go to Google. There's a lot to pull apart. A lot of crazy, unbelievable stuff that's all completely true. I get into little obsessions, and I read everything I can find on one thing, and then I move onto another.

Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books.

A personal library is a reflection of who you are and who you want to be, of what you value and what you desire, of how much you know and how much more you'd like to know.

I grew up listening to my father argue politics into the night and taking trips every Saturday to the Hood River library where my mother maintained her interest in reading and encouraged the same from her sons.

The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.