Books Quote by Gabrielle Zevin

“Books are the essence of life. And there is nothing like a good story to pass the time.”

— Victoria Hislop

“The writer was able to capture many of the feelings that I actually had as a abandoned and then adopted child. Actually I have…

— David Brodzinsky

“No time is more precious and well rewarded than those few moments you spend reading a story to a child”

— Robert D. Harris

“But you love books, then,” Aunt Queen was saying. I had to listen. “Oh, yes,” Lestat said. “Sometimes they are the only thing that…

— Anne Rice

“. . . for not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.”

— Charles Dickens

“Stories are not chapters of novels. They should not be read one after another, as if they were meant to follow along. Read one.…

— Mavis Gallant

“Perhaps I should admit on the title page that this book is "By L. Frank Baum and his correspondents," for I have used many…

— L. Frank Baum

“This is not a book about teaching a child how to read; it's about teaching a child to want to read. There's an education…

— Jim Trelease

“[...]No book can be really complete in this life; it has to end where the author's time and understanding end. There is always something…

— Kathryn Lindskoog

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

“Books never cease to astonish me. When I was a child, I knew--in the incontestable way that children know things--that God was an author…

— Martha Cooley

“Every book tells a story, so you better be ready for the adventure.”

— Jessica Kinney