Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred temple, books might safely reside. (Joyce Carol Oates)

Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred temple, books might safely reside.

Joyce Carol Oates

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