Book Quote by Mary Ann Shaffer

“Perhaps there is some secret homing device in books that brings them to their perfect readers.”

— Juliet Ashton

“Henry was inclined to drift towards books as keenly as a duck paddles for bread crusts.”

— Kevin Ansbro

Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.

— Mary Ann Shaffer

“In the universal library, no book will be an island. It’s all connected.”

— Kevin Kelly

“I spent the period reading the first novel assigned for English. And wow. If I hadn't realized I was in France yet, I do…

— Stephanie Perkins

“I'm not, like, a book guy, but isn't the point of all this book stuff like what Ms. Croft was teaching us -- that…

— David Connis

“WHEN YOU'RE READING YOU SHOULD PRETEND YOU'RE REALLY THERE BECAUSE IT WILL MAKE THE BOOK MOR INTERESTING!”

— Mary Downing Hahn

“I learned that there are books and there are readers; given even the worst of circumstances, they get together. In the privacy of their…

— Elizabeth McCracken

“The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. that is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by…

— Milan Kundera

“Perhaps a book becomes a classic in proportion to how broadly its characters can be scavenged, how many readers find within it something they…

— Janna Malamud Smith

“Children ask me sometimes what book I'd take to a desert island, but I think I couldn't go to a desert island unless it…

— Mary Stolz

“I cannot imagine not reading. Some books, of course, are like lovers; you go to bed with them once and fall asleep immediately...But other…

— Joe Bennett