An actress spends a lifetime observing people. You build up a mental library. No, not a library. Make that a repository.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it. That includes health information. And mental health information. It's a community space. It's a place of safety, a haven from the world.
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
It is an awfully sad misconception that librarians simply check books in and out. The library is the heart of a school, and without a librarian, it is but an empty shell.
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.
The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this is no longer true, if it ever was.
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
The notion of a writer sitting in a library doing research isn't what I want. The research I love doing isn't found in a book. It's what it feels like to rappel down the side of a building; to train with a SWAT team; to hold a human brain in your hands; or to dive for pirate treasure. Those are things I've done to research my stories.
What I try to do - and I think this is the former librarian in me - is to get primary source material.
Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.