Sharon

“The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda

“The reading and writing of fiction both requires and instills empathy—the insertion of oneself into the life of another.”
― Julie Schumacher, Dear Committee Members

“All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda

“and we both know how beautiful the book will be, how clearly it will speak to something within us—some previously unarticulated thought or reflection that, once recognized, we will never want to be without again.”
― Julie Schumacher, Dear Committee Members