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Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid.

I was attacked by a dog when I was a toddler, and my injuries were so bad, I spent quite a bit of my childhood in and out of hospital. Books were absolutely my salvation during those years.

Books seem so much more - much more sacred to me, and more important and essential, than they were when I was young.

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.

I wish I had had my books when I was a kid, I do.

As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.

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.

I loved to read when I was a kid, and as soon as I realized that an actual person got to make up the books I loved so much, I decided that that was the job for me.

I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.