Michael Scott Quotes

My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.

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.

I started to read at a very early age, and I just thought that books and reading were really the most wonderful thing that life had to offer. I think I wrote my very first piece of fiction at the age of 12, but then I didn't write any more for quite a long time.

What can I say? Librarians rule.

I was a librarian.

We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

I love my books.

When I was a young girl, I'd love giving book reports.

I was so in love with books from as early as I remember that it seemed a natural step to want to create them. And so I just wanted to be a writer from a very young age. And I think that the lies were just a natural side effect of me wanting to tell stories and write them down.

For some 25 years, I worked as a librarian, first at the New York Public Library, then at Trenton State College in New Jersey. My life has always been with, around, and for books.

I didn't have picture books - there weren't many around when I was a child.

I think the reason I'm a writer is because first, I was a reader. I loved to read. I read a lot of adventure stories and mystery books, and I have wonderful memories of my mom reading picture books aloud to me. I learned that words are powerful.

I got my first library card, for Hendon Library in north London, when I was two years old.

We will have a total chaos without books, literature, and library.

My grandmother had a Ph.D in library science, so I grew up in a library, and I would appreciate those books and the smell of them and how they'd have these series, and it was cool to me. I always felt like, if I had an opportunity, I'd create an album that felt like a series.

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

I'm a librarian, not an oracle.

Librarian of Congress: It's a librarian's dream.

First rule of writing: When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing this than anything else.

People do write books.

You can't write if you don't read.

I've been a book collector since I was young, since I was a kid.

I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy.

I like writing books. I really love words. I love to read.