Book Quote by John Wood

“It was a surprise, and a delight, to see children devour books. Without ever knowing it, they were receiving an education.”

— Pat Frank

“He believed in the unarguable notion that if a young person is lucky enough to read the right books at the right time in…

— Charles Cumming

“and he glanced at the backs of the books, with an awakened curiosity that went below the binding. No one who can read, ever…

— Charles Dickens

“I was raised to respect books - the house was full of them. From the time I was little, it was drummed into our…

— Martha Southgate

“The pursuit of knowing was freedom to me, the right to declare your own curiosities and follow them through all manner of books. I…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“I wanted to give a sense of the people of the book, the different hands that had made it, used it, protected it.”

— Geraldine Brooks

“As for school, well, the only kids who read books for pleasure, who read outside of when a teacher was literally standing over them…

— John J. Niven

“That was one thing about books: once you read them they couldn’t be unread.”

— Lev Grossman

“She liked getting hold of some book... and keeping it to herself, and gnawing its contents in privacy, and pondering the meaning without sharing…

— Virginia Woolf

“What my parents kept failing to understand was how happy I was when I was alone with my books. There was no pressure to…

— Lisa Yee

“Some people said there was a secret society trained precisely for that purpose, toiling away generation after generation, poring over the book and copying…

— Traci Chee

“Books took away the pain and disappointment, they always did. Books closed bad doors and opened good ones.”

— Anonymous