"Virginia book festival a 'Wordstock'"

"It is a statement of faith in the book and a celebration of its enduring value"

"The force that makes literature flourish –and civilization work."

"Virginia is for book lovers"

"At last year’s Festival luncheon, 1998 National Book Award Winner Alice McDermott said, ‘Nothing else in the course of a lifetime can change us as thoroughly as the poem, the novel, the written word.’ Those who attend the Festival will agree." - The News Virginian, March 24, 2000

"Witness the Virginia Festival of the Book in Charlottesville, where attendance grew from 3,000 to 13,500 in six years." - USA Today, June 2, 2000

"Virginia Festival of the Book...has grown to be a highlight of local cultural life—something we…look forward to from spring to spring." - The Daily Progress, March 22, 2000

"It’s one big love fest of reading and writing." - The Winchester Star, March 24, 2000

And what they’re saying about Charlottesville…

"Thomas Jefferson wrote to John Adams in 1815 ‘I cannot live without books’; apparently neither can Charlottesville." – Charlottesville Area Real Estate Weekly, March 22-28, 2000

"Charlottesville draws writers the way Nashville beckons to musicians." – Southern Living, February 1998

"Charlottesville has been home to such noted writers as Thomas Jefferson, Edgar Allan Poe, and William Faulkner. So it’s fitting that the town hosts a festival celebrating books." – The Washingtonian, March 1997