Best friend Quote by Erma Bombeck

I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.

— Beverly Cleary

Growing up, books were my best friends, just because I didn't really have a lot of peers as deaf kids. So I read, and…

— Lauren Ridloff

Like most of my friends in school, I was a member of multiple circulating libraries; and all of us, to begin with, borrowed and…

— Aravind Adiga

It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.

— Cassandra Clare

Books were a huge part of my childhood growing up. We would go on vacation, and my mom was always carting manuscripts around.

— David Grann

I really have lived in books. Books are friends. They are some of the friends that make you who you are.

— Stanley Hauerwas

Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back.

— John Steinbeck

When I was little, my older brother, Gary, was forced to read a book a week in fourth grade. The books he liked he…

— Keith Hernandez

My mom was a librarian, so I spent most of my childhood in libraries, learning to love their potential for imagination and knowledge.

— Amelia Dimoldenberg

As a child I spent a lot of time at the library.

— Tracy Chapman

I remember as a young child, during one of my frequent trips to the local library, spending hours looking at book after book trying…

— Daniel Tammet

Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.

— Christopher Paolini