Anna Gunn Quotes

Fridays after school, especially when the weather was lousy, Mom would take me to the library. She'd let me check out whatever I wanted, and I checked out a lot.

I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home was the book to which I came back every evening.

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

The best way to enhance a child's imagination is to make them read.

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.

I have a lot of respect and love for children's books.

I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy.

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.

I was alone as a child. I lived in fairytales, adventures, Shakespeare. They are the friends, my books.

Books do furnish a room.

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.

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.'

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

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

The great thing about books is that you can end with a question mark.

Even the worst book can give us something to think about.

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

But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.

I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.

I was enjoying myself writing, because I don't know what's going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don't know at all what you're going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you're a kid and you're reading stories.

When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.

My father brought me a box of books once when I was about three and a half or four. I remember the carton they were in and the covers with illustrations by Newell C. Wyeth.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

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.