Whenever I begin reading a new book, I am embarking on a new, uncharted journey with an unmarked destination. I never know where a particular book will take me, toward what other books I will be led. — Nancy Pearl Copy Share Image
The role of a librarian is to make sense of the world of information. If that's not a qualification for superhero-dom, what is? — Nancy Pearl Copy Share Image
No one should ever finish a book they're not enjoying, no matter how popular or well reviewed the book is. — Nancy Pearl Copy Share Image
“I can relate to the novelist Carrie Brown...who described herself as being 'a promiscuous reader.' I'll give almost any book a chance to have… — Nancy Pearl Copy Share Image
I just said, 'Well, the real people performing miracles every day are librarians,' and we all laughed ourselves off our chairs. — Nancy Pearl Copy Share Image
Whenever I begin reading a new book, I am embarking on a new, uncharted journey with an unmarked destination. I never know where a… — Nancy Pearl Copy Share Image
Reading has always brought me pure joy. I read to encounter new worlds and new ways of looking at the world. I read to… — Nancy Pearl Copy Share Image
If you're 50 years old or younger, give every book about 50 pages before you decide to commit yourself to reading it, or give… — Nancy Pearl Copy Share Image
“Give a book 50 pages. When you get to the bottom of Page 50, ask yourself if you're really liking the book… And if,… — Nancy Pearl Copy Share Image
“If you still don't like a book after slogging through the first 50 pages, set it aside. If you're more than 50 years old,… — Nancy Pearl Copy Share Image
When we want a book exactly like the one we just finished reading, what we really want is to recreate that pleasurable experience--the headlong… — Nancy Pearl Copy Share Image
