Book Quote by Anna Quindlen

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

— Neil Gaiman

Before, I was living in Philadelphia and thinking and speaking of things I had experienced in one environment alone. After leaving, I started to…

— Melody Gardot

In the bare room under the old library on the hill in the town at the tip of the small peninsula on the cold…

— Rebecca Solnit

As a child, I loved to read books. The library was a window to the world, a pathway to worlds and people far from…

— Ed Bradley

I was born in Philadelphia, and I've tried to escape that city all my life. I end up writing plays that force me back…

— Lyle Kessler

I immediately felt welcomed, whereas in Massachusetts, I'd grown up there but I felt like such an outsider. Within a week or two of…

— Adam Granduciel

I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.

— Patti Smith

There was our house in New Orleans. Two blocks in front of us were these beautiful mansions and two blocks behind us were the…

— Tyler Perry

We slept in the park before we had a house, and eventually we shared a home - my parents, my grandparents and five uncles,…

— Debbie Reynolds

By the time I was in first grade, we had settled in New Jersey, and that's where I grew up, outside of Philadelphia, right…

— Sean Doolittle

I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home was the book to…

— Alberto Manguel

I grew up in a house full of books.

— Gillian Flynn