Friends of the Richmond Public Library

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 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

When I enter a library, I feel I’ve come home.

Barbara Wright, author

Books are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind—humanity in print.

Barbara Tuchman, historian & author

Libraries showed me the world beyond my limited horizons.

Sarah Bracey White, author