My first memory of the public library is of lugging home a volume of Norse myths as heavy as a thunder-god's hammer.

The public library is where I studied. It's where my grandfather taught himself English.

I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic - an academic treatise about publishing from the WWII era.

The public library system of the United States is worth preserving.

For those without money, the road to that treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.

The sentiment I hear most from the general public is that they used to put up with the library being shabby because the city was broke. But now that the city has come back in the last 10 years , the expectation has changed.