The sincere love of books has nothing to do with cleverness or stupidity any more than any other sincere love. It is a quality of character, a freshness, a power of pleasure, a power of faith. A silly person may delight in reading masterpieces just as a silly person may delight in picking flowers. A fool may be in love with a poet as he may be in love with a woman.
The prime function of the children's book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful that the child will fall in love with it. And that first love affair between the young child and the young book will lead hopefully to other loves for other books and when that happens the battle is probably won. The child will have found a crock of gold. He will also have gained something that will help to carry him most marvelously through the tangles of his later years. Roald Dahl
I was once in love with books. Now they go their way and I go mine.
Liking an author may be as involuntary and improbable as falling in love.
Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death – fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant.
I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored.
If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.
Like any teenager who reads The Great Gatsby, probably, I was madly in love with the teacher who had opened it up for me.
She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him.
