Naomi Alderman Quotes

I suggest school buses make stops at local libraries so that children who do not have resources like books at home can get access.

In some ways I grew up in the public library in Troy, Michigan.

A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.

I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

I remember visits to the local libraries and getting my own library cards as things of rite-of-passage significance.

And if you are a parent, introduce your children to their neighborhood library. It will give them a real sense of independence to have their own library card and enjoy borrowing books.

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

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.

There were a lot of things I loved about working in a library, but mostly I miss the library patrons. I love books, but books are everywhere. Library patrons are as various and oddball and democratic as library books.

I grew up in a house with very few books.

I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning.

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.

May books spread the world over!

If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.

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

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 feel very privileged to have reached so many kids because a life without stories, without the power of books, would be a very grey world, it's good to add colour.

For people who are readers, reading is important to them.

Books always help.

Children have to have access to books, and a lot of children can't go to a store and buy a book. We need not only our public libraries to be funded properly and staffed properly, but our school libraries. Many children can't get to a public library, and the only library they have is a school library.

I am a bookworm.

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.

Reading has always been the great love of my life.

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.