Book Quote by Anonymous

When you read something, and especially when you're reading compellingly great, that becomes part of your identity, at least while you're reading it. You…

— David Ferry

When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely…

— Paula Fox

I never read a single book as a child. I did not read as a child. I worked on the farm. I had books…

— Story Musgrave

“There are countless reasons for reading, but when you’re young and uncertain of your identity, of who you may be, one of the most…

— Michael Cart

I don't think that children, if left to themselves, feel that there is an author behind a book, a somebody who wrote it. Grown-ups…

— P. L. Travers

I feel lucky that I read so many books as a kid because I know that no matter how much I appreciate a book…

— Rebecca Stead

Reading is the scourge of childhood because, in a sense, it creates adulthood.

— Neil Postman

I think I'm still fed by my childhood experience of reading, even though obviously I'm reading many books now and a lot of them…

— Rebecca Stead

I have this belief that children become readers before they can read. They become hooked on books because they were read aloud to as…

— Jacqueline Wilson

To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them.

— William Steig

To read is to have experiences; every book changes my life at least a little bit. The first time I can remember this happening…

— Jonathan Franzen

Reading has always been life unwrapped to me, a way of understanding the world and understanding myself through both the unknown and the everyday.…

— Anna Quindlen