Book Quote by Anne Lamott

“We must connect students to books that force them to pay attention, to think and wonder, to imagine and believe, and then read for…

— Peggy Kittle

I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.

— George W. Bush

The idea there were kids out there who didn't love to read and write just as much as I did struck me. So I…

— Adora Svitak

Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.

— Samuel Butler

I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.

— Ann Patchett

I became fascinated by the fact that people write to give away rather than write to be read. It's the difference between playwrights and…

— David Suchet

“Maybe I only think everyone wants to be a writer because the friends I naturally choose are people who love books. People who love…

— Ellen Gilchrist

More books have resulted from somebody's need to write than from anybody's need to read.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

Few children learn to read books by themselves. Someone has to lure them into the wonderful world of the written word; Someone has to…

— Orville Prescott

I've always wanted to write a book. And it turned out that it was more about finding a story that I felt I was…

— Hank Green

It is my greatest wish to teach children what I now believe: that writing is not a burden but a joy.

— Rebecca Serle

“This is what I want for my students, to lose and find themselves in books.”

— Donalyn Miller