Joy Quote by Atheneum Books for Young Readers

“Sometimes you happen to run across a brilliant run of radio songs, where each tie one station goes to commercial, you scan to another…

— John Green

“I cranked the radio and sang loud. I needed to hear a live human voice, and I was my own best hope.”

— Lynn Weingarten

“The feeling of joy came up in me again the way the lyric of a song might remind a man on the edge of…

— Norman Mailer

“it isn’t about the sound of your voice, but the happiness that makes you sing.”

— Aleatha Romig

“And I could hear all these songs on the radio, but the radio wasn’t on.”

— Stephen Chbosky

“She was like a song on the radio that touches a person so profoundly they call the station just to find out who sang…

— Michael Banebrook

“Sudden singing was the only type I really missed. When sudden singing happened it came out of the blue and made me feel so…

— Karen Foxlee

“Yet I had such joy from the words.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

“I was listening to the radio the other day in California and one of our songs came on and I jumped because I couldn’t…

— Henry Rollins

“If I had to sum up what he did to me, I’d say it was this: he made me sing along to all the…

— Jenny Offill

“What the joys of music were to others, words on a page were to him.”

— James Salter

“I sing without knowing what my song means, and whether the listening world is amazed or wounded.”

— Margarita Engle