Gillian Flynn Quotes

I grew up in a house with very few books.

One of the great privileges of my life was growing up in a house without books.

Seeing that we were book enthusiasts, my mother began hauling my sister and me down to the Stanton Free Library on Tuesday afternoons, where I'd find two or three books to bring home.

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.

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.

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

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.

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 am a bookworm.

I do like having books on my shelves. I do value that life.

It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.

I'm a bookworm.

I was so fortunate to be raised in a household filled with books and - as you might imagine to be the case in the Bush home - plenty of conversation.

I long for books; I am utterly greedy about them.

When I was younger, I was full of smart things to say about all my books.

Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books.

I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I'd go and work my way through the children's area.

Books do furnish a room.

If you can't read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers. Every two weeks, he'd take me to our local branch library and pull books off the shelf for me, stacking them up in my arms - 'Have you read this? And this? And this?'

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

I'd always been a big reader. I credit my mom for giving me my love of reading.

I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time.

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

I grew up in a home where reading was a big deal.