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“I exercised my mental muscles in the library, and lo and behold, I transformed myself from a casual reader into a focused one. So it was more than just free books, but also free space and a culture that reinforced settling down, deep reading, thinking, imagining, and exploring with my mind. I am no doubt a writer today because I had a place to go as a kid, where I knew stories were essential, and where everybody also reveled in the wonder within books.”

Book:Crossing Borders: Personal Essays

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Crossing Borders: Personal Essays

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Sergio Troncoso

Sergio Troncoso is an American author known for his profound portrayals of Latinx Americans. His works often focus on immigration experiences, family relationships, and social changes. more

“Public libraries have succumbed to the same pressures that have overwhelmed the basic cultural functions of museums and universities, aims that should remain what they were, not because the old ways are always better but because in this case they were the right ones: the sustaining of standards, the preservation of quality, the conservation of literacy's history, the education of the heart, eye and mind. Now libraries devote far too much of their restricted space, and their limited budget, to public amusement. It is a fact of philistine life that amusement is where the money is.”

Public Libraries

Author:William H. Gass

“Look at all the books in this place. Every one of them is inside you. And you're inside them." "Sweetheart. It's a public library, not my private library. It needs people." "They got out of the habit is all." "The world has changed." "No, everybody needs a story, Miss Perkins. That's something that never, ever changes.”

Stories Books Libraries Public Libraries

Book:Harry's Trees

Source: Harry's Trees

“Deep reading is always about *connection*: connecting what we know to what we read, what we read to what we feel, what we feel to what we think, and how we think to how we live out our lives in a connected world.”

Connection Reading For Life Deep Reading

Book:Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World

Source: Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World

“Their words also make it a lot easier for people to justify that shift -- to convince themselves that surfing the Web is a suitable, even superior, substitute for deep reading and other forms of calm and attentive thought. In arguing that books are archaic and dispensable, Federman and Shirky provide the intellectual cover that allows thoughtful people to slip comfortably in the permanent state of distractedness that defines the online life.”