I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If I had millions and millions and millions of dollars, I'd leave a large portion to the 42nd Street library. That's why - that was my hangout, the reading rooms, the North and South reading rooms. I'd go there, and my God, I couldn't believe I had access to all of these books. That was my university.
We had library books in our house, but not our own. So you had 14 days to read them. There would be eight books a fortnight in our house and I'd read as many of those as I could.
If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.
As a kid, I would get my parents to drop me off at my local library on their way to work during the summer holidays, and I would walk home at night. For several years, I read the children's library until I finished the children's library. Then I moved into the adult library and slowly worked my way through them.
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.
There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the limit set by the library.
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.
To me, the nicest luxury would be to have a room where I could keep all my books in one place - and have space for more.
I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning.
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