Believing in books is a lot like believing in God.

- Julie Schumacher

My mother says that some books are good no matter when you read them, and some are good at a particular moment; they come into your life at just the …

- Julie Schumacher

I had just wanted to be part of a story; I wanted to be a person who had a story to tell.

- Julie Schumacher

Opening a book in the middle of a chapter always made me feel like I was interrupting a group of strangers, wandering unannounced into their villages…

- Julie Schumacher

I love to sleep. My astrological sign is the sloth.

- Julie Schumacher

A drowning person doesn't rescue herself.

- Julie Schumacher

Boredom is why God invented books.

- Julie Schumacher

Talking to a therapist, I thought, was like taking your clothes off and then taking your skin off, and then having the other person say, "Would you m…

- Julie Schumacher