Bookstores Quote by Sarah Jio

A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can…

— Astrid Lindgren

As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.

— Talulah Riley

The stories of kids who grew up in communities like mine weren't being written about in many books for kids.

— Jason Reynolds

If you don't remember childhood and you idealize it, you can't write books for kids because they're not real. Kids pick that up.

— Robert Munsch

I feel very privileged to have reached so many kids because a life without stories, without the power of books, would be a very…

— Anthony Horowitz

“Children's author C. Alexander London (2011) writes, “It's a fact: people can survive without books. People can even have wonderful, full lives without books.…

— Donalyn Miller

“This is one of the chief differences between a child's experience of a favorite book and an educated adult's. For the adult, a book…

— Laura Miller

Without story books is like a person with no soul.

— Stephen King

It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.

— Anonymous

There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books…

— Philip Pullman

Very young children love and demand stories, and can understand complex matters presented as stories, when their powers of comprehending general concepts, paradigms, are…

— Oliver Sacks

If children haven't been read to, they don't love books. They need to love books, for books are the basis of literature, composition, history,…

— Edith Schaeffer