What You Are Looking for is in the Library

by Michiko Aoyama

There are so many things to do, but I won’t make the excuse that I have no time anymore. Instead, I will think about what I can do with the time I have. One day is going to become tomorrow.

From big things to little, there are some things we simply cannot force to go to plan, no matter how hard we try.

“You may say that it was the book, but it’s how you read a book that is most valuable, rather than any power it might have itself.”

“This didn’t just come to you. It happened because you did something for yourself. You took action and that caused things to change around you.”

If I can draw just one picture that leaves a mark in somebody’s life and is remembered, then I can find a place for me.

Everybody should have their own story.

When you are in contact with the poet’s soul and their attitude to life, your response to their poetry becomes even more powerful. You can, in a sense, even enter into life of that poet and feel moved in the same way.

People working in the book industry are not the only ones who make the publishing world go round; most of all it depends on the readers. Books belong to everybody: the creators, the sellers and the readers. That’s what society is all about I believe.”