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When I grew up, there were locked cabinets in public libraries. You needed parental permission if you were under eighteen. I was let down by the overblown reputations of some hardcore fictional works.

— Allan Gurganus

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

When I was 10, my father had to go to the local library to sign a release form stating that I was allowed to borrow books from the adult section.

— Terry Hayes

At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.

— Baz Luhrmann

When I was a boy in the late 1950s, the public library refused to stock books by Edgar Rice Burroughs. They were regarded as vulgar, ill-written potboilers.

— Michael Dirda

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

— Sayed Kashua

The challenge of writing books for teenagers is walking the fine line between truth and what the publishers, parents, and the more conservative librarians want to hear.

— Annette Curtis Klause

By the time I was 12, I was reading my parents' books because there weren't teenage books then.

— Judy Blume

✗Opposing Perspectives

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

— Judy Blume

Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely.

— Rita Dove

For the best part of my childhood I visited the local library three or four times a week, hunching in the stacks on a foam rubber stool and devouring children's fiction, classics, salacious thrillers, horror and sci-fi, books about cinema and origami and natural history, to the point where my parents encouraged me to read a little less.

— David Nicholls

When I was growing up, my house was filled with books. My mother was an educator, and my father was a history buff, so our home was a virtual library, covering every author from Beverly Cleary to James Michener.

— Jeff Kinney