Book Quote by Jacqueline Wilson

Jacqueline Woodson's books are such a gift to parents and children for their poignant subtlety and lyricism and their willingness to let a reader…

— Tracy K. Smith

“Books took, in her young life, the place of companions and childish games. She read a great deal without guidance or discrimination, and gained…

— Lyubov Dostoyevskaya

“I armed her against the censures of the world, shewed her that books were sweet unreproaching companions to the miserable, and that if they…

— Oliver Goldsmith

“From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends.…

— Betty Smith

“Her journal, the only thing in the world that she owned, held the events of her life. Things she wanted to forget and things…

— Luke Alistar

“But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine; she read all such works as heroines must read to supply their…

— Jane Austen

“She was a bookish person who'd never been exposed to books: she was gifted with astute powers of observation, but her thoughts and feelings…

— Kate Morton

“Learning became her. She loved the smell of the books, the shelves, the type on the pages, the sense that the world was an…

— Robert Goolrick

“What could be more important than inspiring a child to read her first book and giving her the gift of confidence?”

— Kathy L. Patrick

“All her life she had known that books were living things, not just a convergence of concept and ink, intellect and paper. They did…

— Tim Lebbon

“She had always been different, even when she tried not to be, unable to curb her curiosity which led her to read a great…

— Susan Power

When she came to write her story, she would wonder when the books and the words started to mean not just something, but everything.

— Markus Zusak