Literary Adventures Quotes

The first thing I do in any town I come to is ask if it has a bookstore.

When I was a teenager I was a total romantic escapist. My world was books.

A library is where you meet fascinating characters you never forget.

Even as a kid, my memories are of books taking me out of myself.

Dreams, books, are each a world.

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.

Second, there are so many magical places in books that you can't go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.

I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.

When I was five I learned to read. Books were a miracle to me - white pages, black ink, and new worlds and different friends in each one. To this day, I relish the feeling of cracking a binding for the first time, the anticipation of where I'll go and whom I'll meet inside.