Book Quote by Marlee Matlin

Many of Judy Blume's books - which I devoured when I was growing up and where I found characters that were believable because they…

— Jeff Kinney

“I quickly learned that a book carefully arranged before your face was a bulletproof shield, an asbestos wall, a cloak of invisibility. I learned…

— Erica Jong

I learned to read at the age of five, in Brother Justiniano’s class at the De la Salle Academy in Cochabamba, Bolivia. It is…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“daughter of the past who walked in all wide-eyed and exhaling like she’d finally found what she was looking for. It was a look…

— Patti Callahan Henry

“I learned that the book was Then Again, Maybe I Won’t, which, along with other books by the same author, Judy Blume, was seen…

— Shulem Deen

When I was little, I loved books that gave me lots of detail so that I felt like I could be transported to this…

— Jan Brett

“Children learn to read by being in the presence of books.”

— Horace Mann

“I remember the first year after my second child was born, what I can remember of it at all, as a year of disarray,…

— Anna Quindlen

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

Like a house in the rain, books were havens of permanence and protection from whatever it was that as a child I needed protection…

— Frederick Buechner

My grandfather and mother were school teachers, so there was always some discussion around books.

— Sudha Murty

School was a source of great suffering to me, but once I learned to read, I disappeared into books, where I was a happy…

— Sue Grafton