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

I cannot think of a day in my life when the library didn’t exert a potent attraction for me, offering a sense of the specialness of each individual’s curiosity and his or her quest to satisfy it.

Scott Turow, lawyer & author

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

Barbara Tuchman, historian & author

Libraries are more important today than when I was a kid.

John Grisham, Virginia author

Some of my earliest memories are of book readings and story nights at our local library. It’s where I first learned to love reading, and discovered how exciting it is to get lost in the pages of a really good book.

Erin Duffy, author