Books Quote by Julio Torres

I've always loved children's books - it's not that I didn't like them, I just didn't think I wanted to do that. But then…

— Brian Selznick

As a kid books changed how I looked at the world and helped me understand things. Books still deepen me and open my heart.

— Kate DiCamillo

I remember I had a copy of 'David Copperfield' that I lugged around at primary school. I started reading it when I was seven,…

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading…

— Kate DiCamillo

When I was a kid, I liked books that just seemed so dense you could lose yourself in them for a whole afternoon. They…

— Chris Ware

I think I'm still fed by my childhood experience of reading, even though obviously I'm reading many books now and a lot of them…

— Rebecca Stead

I enjoyed reading as a child.

— Anonymous

A children's book is the perfect place where young readers can understand the world because they can take a deep breath and look at…

— Jan Brett

To see what books were available for my older students, I made many trips to the library. If a book looked interesting, I checked…

— Cynthia Voigt

When I was little, my older brother, Gary, was forced to read a book a week in fourth grade. The books he liked he…

— Keith Hernandez

I like to read to my kids before bed. With my first two sons we went through every Wizard Of Oz book, every original,…

— Rob Crow

I think of children's books as not so much for children, but as the filling that goes between the child world and the adult…

— Michael Rosen