Because Quote by Amanda Lindhout

That book taught me that by reading, I could live more intensely. It could give me back the sight I had lost. For that…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The house was quiet and the world was calm. The reader became the book.

— Wallace Stevens

The book is an experience that allows you to witness your feelings without having to surrender to them, to succumb to them, or to…

— Michael Silverblatt

It's hard to find a book that's safe to write. Because one always goes to dark or difficult places.

— Joan Didion

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people…

— Anonymous

“Without the personal traumas, tribulations and ‘terribles’ that I have experienced throughout life, I wouldn’t have gained the information necessary to write this book…

— Emma James

In the case of 'Ocean at the End of the Lane,' it's a book about helplessness. It's a book about family, it's a book…

— Neil Gaiman

The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as…

— D. H. Lawrence

“That moment you finish a book, look around, and realize that everyone else is just getting on with their lives as though you didn't…

— Anonymous

We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves,…

— Franz Kafka

Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out…

— Dean Koontz

The book that made me want to be a writer in the first place was Gone with the Wind - I read it and…

— Jodi Picoult