Friends of the Richmond Public Library

Come, and take choice of all my library, and so beguile thy sorrow.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616), playwright

I’m of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.

Barbara Kingsolver, Virginia author

Libraries: cafeterias for food that feeds the mind.

Louise Yelin, author

Libraries are absolutely at the center of my life. Since I couldn’t afford to go to college, I attended the library three or four days a week from the age of eighteen on, and graduated from the library when I was twenty-eight.

Ray Bradbury, author

There is no problem a library card can’t solve.

Eleanor Brown, author