Book Quote by Anna Quindlen

“The people in books become more real to you than any one in actual life.”

— Christopher Morley

“But books feel real. Surely they must seem more real to you than anyone. They can hurt you. They can break your heart.”

— Holly Black

“Books had always been a comfort to me, an escape from reality when reality got to be too real.”

— Julie Fisher

“They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?”

— Gabrielle Zevin

“…I’d have died without them [books]. Even now I’m not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I’ve…

— Beatrice Sparks

“Books are the reality you get to choose; life is the reality you hide from inside a book.”

— A.M. Hudson

“We live and breathe words. (...) It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest…

— Cassandra Clare

“Books are like magic carpets, taking us to places real and imaginary that we never thought possible.”

— Anonymous

“I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much for reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what…

— Anne Tyler

“I could not resist the clarity of the world in books, the incredibly satisfying way in which life became weighty and accessible. Books were…

— Frank Conroy

“It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than than…

— Richard Wright

“You can write books, but there’s only ever one book that’s really you.”

— Joan G. Robinson