Book lovers love books!" her mother announced. "There's…

I feel like I am walking in some amazing footsteps of writers who have come before me, like S.E. Hinton, Walter Dean Myers, Christopher…

— Jacqueline Woodson

“We are lucky to die without having read some books, and without having heard some songs.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I tend to pull nuggets out of many books - rather than having a handful of books that serve as guiding lights.

— Daniel H. Pink

“Get someone-anyone-to read books to you. Having books read to you at any age is the supremo ultimato of living.”

— Carew Papritz

Six books… my mother didn’t want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books – that…

— Jeanette Winterson

“I quickly learned that a book carefully arranged before your face was a bulletproof shield, an asbestos wall, a cloak of invisibility. I learned…

— Erica Jong

We really have no definition of mother in our law books. Mother was believed to have been so basic that no definition was deemed…

— Marianne O. Battani

I've always loved books. My mother told me that before I could talk, I'd babble in my crib as I turned the pages of…

— JoAnn Ross

It is probably true that I would not have had as many children or mothers in my books without being a mother with children.…

— Marly Youmans

When I was growing up, my house was filled with books. My mother was an educator, and my father was a history buff, so…

— Jeff Kinney

I've written something like 17 novels, which isn't bad, I suppose, but my father wrote 120 books, my mother 40. In comparison, I'm lazy.

— Deborah Moggach

I always sent my mother all these huge books I made. When my mother died, I was cleaning her cupboard, and these big books…

— Marina Abramovic

Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.

— Hallie Ephron

I have always loved books, and as a mother, I wanted to share my passion for reading with my children.

— Aerin Lauder

“The books my mother read and reread provided a broader, more adventurous world, and escape from the confines of her chronic illness. Her interior…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin