Friends of the Richmond Public Library

The contents of a library can take you further than your own imagination could begin to imagine. To open a book is to open your mind.

Amberle Cianne, 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

Libraries offer, for free, the wisdom of the ages—and sages—and, simply put, there’s something for everyone inside.

Laura Bush, First Lady of the United States

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

Eleanor Brown, author

Libraries: cafeterias for food that feeds the mind.

Louise Yelin, author