Book Quote by Jo Baker

“Books were her easiest friends. They demanded nothing from her but her attention.”

— Lorna Landvik

“She'd always been a little excitable, a little more passionate about books than your average person, but she was supposed to be -- she…

— Sarah Beth Durst

“The books are hard. But the more she asked, the more the children gave. And, though they never saw her, there were thousands who…

— Parents' National Education Union

“There are so many things to know and learn. She reads...and finds comfort in the fact that she will never run out of books.”

— Janice Y.K. Lee

“No children. No books. Few friends. She seemed to know what she was doing.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“large part of her simplicity consisted in determining not to want what she could not have with ease. So”

— James Baldwin

“She‘d never taken much interest in reading. She read, of course, as one did, but liking books was something she left to other people.”

— Alan Bennett

“...She had little patience with people who got intellectually lazy when faced with a difficult concept.”

— Beth Fantaskey

“Life is too difficult to make me bear with it all, I prefer mostly to stay in the books.”

— Roab Woody

“Books liked her. Books wanted to look after her.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

“She is too fond of books and it has addled her mind.”

— Louisa May Alcott

“She thought it must be a lonely life for a boy who hated books.”

— Hilda Van Stockum