Awakening Quote by Jim C. Hines

“This book is a treasure; I did not suspect it would be so good when I picked it up, but now I can feel…

— Laura Nowlin

Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room piled high with cases in my father's name; Piled high, packed large, where, creeping…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The inspiration for the book came after a visitation from a spiritual being that materialized before me on two consecutive nights. Although I crumpled…

— Brad Steiger

“an odd thing happens: The book begins collecting your memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be back where…

— Cornelia Funke

A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful. Even as a kid, my…

— Maurice Sendak

Books were my first love.

— Maisie Peters

I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.

— Michael Cunningham

My first book was the book that changed my life.

— Stephen Ambrose

“I live in gratitude to my parents for initiating me--and as early as I begged for it, without keeping me waiting--into knowledge of the…

— Eudora Welty

“Two by two, I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the…

— Eudora Welty

“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful. Even as a kid, my…

— Maurice Sendak

“Never before had I felt trapped, seduced, and caught up in a story,' Clara explained, 'the way I did with that book. Until then,…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón