You've credited libraries with nurturing your love of literature. How important is it that children have access to books in a local library? I get sad when people say, why would you possibly need a library? Look, you can have all this stuff on an eyepad. But an ipad is not a safe space. An ipad doesn't give you serendipoty. It doesn’t give you quiet. As far as i'm concerned, libraries help create future generations. They give us literate adults. And they give us people who can have the empathy that fiction can give. If you are out of work and you do not have the internet, and there are people