Anthony Doerr Quotes

As a child, I spent a lot of time at the library.

Books were a huge part of my childhood growing up. We would go on vacation, and my mom was always carting manuscripts around.

As a kid, I used to go to the library and take out all the art books.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

The best way to enhance a child's imagination is to make them read.

Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred temple, books might safely reside.

My mother taught me to read in part by reading me Walt Disney comics, and I never stopped.

I was just so intrigued with good stories from the time I was a little girl. When my parents would take us out to dinner, I would bring a book along. And they were perfectly happy with that.

I have a lot of respect and love for children's books.

Books do furnish a room.

My earliest memory is learning to read 'Muffin the Mule' when I was about three.

I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home was the book to which I came back every evening.

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

I grew up in a household without a TV. We lived next door to a library for a while, and at one point, I checked out all the books in the fairy tale section. I remember the librarian's quiet smile as I'd bring back one stack and exchange it for another.

The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.

When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading almost all year.

When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.

My father brought me a box of books once when I was about three and a half or four. I remember the carton they were in and the covers with illustrations by Newell C. Wyeth.

My mother taught me to read.

I came from a house full of books, so I took reading for granted. I was an outdoorsy little kid, too, so I got the best of both worlds by taking books up trees and reading there.

A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.

I'd go to the library so I could sit in a big, quiet room and listen to pages being turned. There was a boring librarian who everyone in fifth grade hated. But I loved her because when she would read us stories in her soft voice, she'd turn my head into a snow globe.

One of the most important things in my childhood were the new books that came in. I feel sorry for kids today who have so many other options like television that they may not value books as much as they could enjoy them.

If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff.

I spent more time at the library than anyone my age when I was a kid.