Books Quotations | Page 10

Libraries and books have always been a part of my life and have made a difference in my life. I have always had a passion for books, both reading and collecting.

Librarians are an essential and vital bridge to the reader, ... As book lovers, librarians introduce readers to books every day. I think it's essential that librarians accentuate reading for pleasure and have a solid understanding, respect, even affection for popular fiction.

Lots of kids, including my son, have trouble making the leap from reading words or a few sentences in picture books to chapter books. Chapters are often long... 10 pages can seem like a lifetime to a young reader. Then reading becomes laborious and serious. That's why some of the chapters in my books are very short.

Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from their books;But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.

One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign.

One of my favorite things in books is watching someone make the mistake. You know it's going to happen. You keep thinking: 'Don't do it!' But of course they're going to do it. It's riveting. You learn through them that it's okay. It's the ecstatic fall, where you watch someone make that terrible decision, and there's such pleasure in it.

I was a total music nerd. I grew up on Perry Street in the '80s. My father wrote books about jazz, so I was always at the 'Village Vanguard.'

I was so sad to read recently that 32 percent of fourth- graders say they never read a book for pleasure,

I was really proud of our daughters. My youngest, who is 3, donated her two favorite books and said she wanted a little one to have them.

I was really proud of our daughters, ... My youngest, who is 3, donated her two favorite books and said she wanted a little one to have them.