Amazed Quote by Anne Rice

I read 'Animal Farm' when I was 11, and it remained my favorite book, really.

— Martin Freeman

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural…

— Eudora Welty

When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.

— Antony Beevor

“I learned from the age of two or three, that any room in our house, at any time of day, was there to read…

— Eudora Welty

The first bookstore I loved wasn't a little independent gem nestled in a neighborhood: it was a modest Waldenbooks in our local shopping mall.

— Celeste Ng

The first pages of any book I remember reading, in Pinner Wood primary school, were from The Beacon Readers: stories of Farmer Giles, Rover…

— Michael Rosen

It was amazing to me then, and still is, that so many people who wander into bookshops don't really know what they're after--they only…

— Mary Ann Shaffer

I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I…

— Mary Ann Shaffer

When I was growing up, if there was a Young Adult section of my town's library, I missed it. I wandered right from 'The…

— Erin Morgenstern

“The store owner had settled himself behind the counter again and was reaching for his book. "The journey will test your sanity." He spoke…

— Natasha Mostert

I read 'Booksmart' a couple of years ago, so I always knew that it was this wonderful project.

— Molly Gordon

Books of exploration have always fascinated me, like somebody going up the Amazon for the first time.

— Ruskin Bond