Ball Quote by Amy Bloom

I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to…

— Patrick Ness

I got hit by the bug of reading - not via a person, but via the one-room library in our small town. I remember…

— Anita Shreve

One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even…

— Beverly Cleary

I was a library rat and a bookworm. I read all the time. I walked to school reading books. I read under my desk.

— Chelsea Cain

I was the quiet kid in the corner, reading a book. In elementary school, I read so much and so often during class that…

— Cassandra Clare

I was always a reader. In the fifth grade, I got some sort of prize for having read hundreds of books from the library.

— Vijay Seshadri

When I was young, I was reading anything and anything I could lay my hands on. I was a veracious-to-the-point-of-insane reader.

— Neil Gaiman

When I was younger I used to lock myself in the bathroom and read in the dry tub. I was also a fan of…

— Karen Russell

My mother always kept library books in the house, and one rainy Sunday afternoon - this was before television, and we didn't even have…

— Beverly Cleary

I read like an animal. I read under the covers, I read lying in the grass, I read at the dinner table. While other…

— Nicole Krauss

I read while the kids play. I can see them from the kitchen window. And I'm a fast reader.

— Reese Witherspoon

Books have always been my home. I ransacked the library regularly from the time we moved to the States. I read on the fire…

— Mitali Perkins