Book Quote by Anonymous

I held out my book. It was precious to me, as were all the things I'd written; even where I despised their inadequacy there…

— Tanith Lee

“To me it was the ultimate book: once you read it, neither your own life nor the world you lived in would ever look…

— Dai Sijie

Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.

— Alberto Manguel

There's still nothing like a book to really make you feel like you've disappeared into a world.

— Noah Hawley

Through reading, I escaped the bad parts of my life in the South Bronx. And, through books, I got to travel the world and…

— Sonia Sotomayor

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

Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard.

— Alice Walker

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

Every day I ran to that book like it was a bottle of whiskey and crawled inside because it was a world that I…

— Craig Ferguson

my life has been saved over and over again by picking up a book in which someone captured the whole experience of being despised…

— Dorothy Allison

School was a source of great suffering to me, but once I learned to read, I disappeared into books, where I was a happy…

— Sue Grafton

“I valued that half-dream state of being lost in a book so much that I limited the number of pages I let myself read…

— Allison Hoover Bartlett