41 Quotes by Nancy Pearl

Book lust forever!

To read Hotel Angeline is to celebrate how this diverse group of writers (and readers, all of them) can pool their talents and expertise to come up with such an entertaining and soul-satisfying novel.

I was just totally blown away by the humor and grace, and ability... to bring her characters to life. The voice is so confiding and so honest.

This is one of those collections where one would be hard pressed to find a bad story. Moore is one of those people whose every word is chosen carefully to move the story forward just a little bit -- so that as you're reading, you get caught up in the lives of her characters.

Simply adored Timothy Schaffert's The Coffins of Little Hope: the voice of Essie, the narrator, is terrific & the last line blew me away.

No one should ever finish a book they're not enjoying, no matter how popular or well reviewed the book is.

When we want a book exactly like the one we just finished reading, what we really want is to recreate that pleasurable experience--the headlong rush to the last page, the falling into a character's life, the deeper understanding we've gotten of a place or a time, or the feeling of reading words that are put together in a way that causes us to look at the world differently. We need to start thinking about what it is about a book that draws us in, rather than what the book is about.

Whenever I begin reading a new book, I am embarking on a new, uncharted journey with an unmarked destination. I never know where a particular book will take me, toward what other books I will be led.

I just said, 'Well, the real people performing miracles every day are librarians,' and we all laughed ourselves off our chairs.