Book Quote by Cornelia Funke

May I ask you something?" I say. "Why do you read books, when you could be outside, living a million different adventures every day?"…

— Jodi Picoult

“When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic yearning for the lost pleasure of books.…

— Diane Setterfield

The thing I'm writing now, I have various characters, and all of a sudden, out of nowhere, this couple dies. And they have a…

— Sandra Dallas

If there is an amateur reader still left in the world—or anybody who just reads and runs—I ask him or her, with untellable affection…

— Anonymous

“Childhood only comes around once. Make your child's memories special. Take them on a new adventure each day. It is as simple as opening…

— K. Lamb

I'd finished the first two [books] and they were going to to be published, and [editor] said, "We need you to write a summary…

— Daniel Handler

“My life is an open book looking for chapters of love to fill my lonely pages. -Michelle Carithers read more "A Daughter's Worth-A Novel”

— M. Carithers

“Read to live another life, even if only for a chapter.”

— Jordan Urtso

“All that counts is that a child says at the end of the book, ‘Again!”

— Anonymous

Never give a child a book you can't read!

— David Nasir

“This allowed her two glorious hours sitting quietly by herself in a cozy corner, devouring one book after another. When she had read every…

— Roald Dahl

“-and finally, to all of you who've come here tonight to celebrate children's books: every time you find the right, the necessary book for…

— Katherine Applegate