Zilpha Keatley Snyder Quotes

For me, books have been a life-long resource-to learning, laughter, solace, excitement, inspiration. At your library, the world awaits you, free for the asking.

I understood right from the start that every set of library doors were the sort of magic portals that lead to other lands. My God, right within reach there were dinosaurs and planets and presidents and girl detectives!

My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way.

There is that romanticized idea of what a bookstore can be, what a library can be, what a shop can be. And to me, they are that. These are places that open doors into other worlds if only you're open to them.

One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer.

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

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

Libraries raised me.

A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.

With every book, you go back to school. You become a student. You become an investigative reporter. You spend a little time learning what it's like to live in someone else's shoes.

Reading is as much a part of life as any part, and it's life itself. And it allows us to live other lives that we might not have lived if we hadn't picked up those books.

You can be taught so much, but the sense of anticipation cannot be taught.

I would read. I would explore

I ransack public libraries & find them full of sunk treasure.

The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the stacks.

It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.

I grew up in a small town in India, but through books I knew the world.

I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.

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

Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting.

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.