Books Quote by Nancy Pearl

The role of a librarian is to make sense of the world of information. If that's not a qualification for superhero-dom, what is?

— Nancy Pearl

No one should ever finish a book they're not enjoying, no matter how popular or well reviewed the book is.

— Nancy Pearl

“Girl discovers reading, then discovers life.”

— Nancy Pearl

I just said, 'Well, the real people performing miracles every day are librarians,' and we all laughed ourselves off our chairs.

— Nancy Pearl

Whenever I begin reading a new book, I am embarking on a new, uncharted journey with an unmarked destination. I never know where a…

— Nancy Pearl

Reading has always brought me pure joy. I read to encounter new worlds and new ways of looking at the world. I read to…

— Nancy Pearl

If you're 50 years old or younger, give every book about 50 pages before you decide to commit yourself to reading it, or give…

— Nancy Pearl

“Book lust forever!”

— Nancy Pearl

“Give a book 50 pages. When you get to the bottom of Page 50, ask yourself if you're really liking the book… And if,…

— Nancy Pearl

“If you still don't like a book after slogging through the first 50 pages, set it aside. If you're more than 50 years old,…

— Nancy Pearl

When we want a book exactly like the one we just finished reading, what we really want is to recreate that pleasurable experience--the headlong…

— Nancy Pearl

“To read Hotel Angeline is to celebrate how this diverse group of writers (and readers, all of them) can pool their talents and expertise…

— Nancy Pearl