Books Quote by Anonymous

“His main example was to read like a child--very curiously and carefully ... But with the full intellectual sophistication of a brilliant adult.”

— Daniel Menaker

“No, he hadn't known anything about children, but now he'd learned something: a child's mind is open to everything.”

— Carsten Jensen

“He had no intention of writing. He loved reading, that was all. And he read books that he thought so far beyond anything that…

— Niall Williams

“his education had had the curious effect of making things that he read and wrote more real to him than things he saw.”

— C.S. Lewis

“He turned and looked at the boy. Maybe he understood for the first time that to the boy he was himself an alien. A…

— Cormac McCarthy

“Some day, his mind said, that boy would know what things were in the books and what things were not.”

— John Steinbeck

“A child's imagination can be found in the heart of a good book.”

— K. Lamb

“What the Boy chiefly dabbled in was natural history and fairy tales, and he just took them as they came, in a sandwichy sort…

— Kenneth Grahame

“He imagined a future in which he could read everything, in which all stories could be opened and discovered.”

— Neil Gaiman

“Children are notoriously literal readers, and I was no exception. Books, I believed, contained the entire truth about everything, and if you could just…

— Pamela Paul

“In the peculiar alchemy of literature, the daughter was adept at creating in fiction what she had not known in her own childhood.”

— Caroline Fraser

“Perhaps it is a child's magical thinking. But you cannot know a place until you know the stories it tells about itself.”

— Sean Wallace