Marie

“I’m raising this child,” she tells them, “and if I have a problem with something she brings home from the library, she’ll hear about it from me. You won’t. So you let her have anything she wants.”
― James Patterson, The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading

“You were given your gift for the joy you may give in return.”
― Cornelius Elmore Addison, Tom Thorneval: Dream Merchant Extraordinaire

“Texas Representative Matt Krause compiles a sixteen-page list of 850 fiction and nonfiction books that he believes “make students feel discomfort.”
― James Patterson, The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading

“sobering statistics compiled by Literacy Inc., that 33 percent of high school graduates never pick up another book, and that 42 percent of college grads don’t either. Oh yeah, and apparently 80 percent of American families did not purchase a book this year.”
― James Patterson, The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading