Books Quote by damali ayo

“[Readers] are escaping from a narrow, limiting view of the world and journeying to a place where it is possible to experience a deeper…

— Duncan Smith

“Life is limited, but by writing, and reading, we can live in different worlds, get inside the skins and minds of other people, and,…

— Joan Lingard

“When you're inside your own story, you don't see things like a reader. You don't see your life in tidy paragraphs and chapters.”

— Jerry Spinelli

“A story is not like a road to follow … it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while,…

— Alice Munro

“Reading is an escape from the outside world. Everyone needs a little of that to keep their sanity.”

— Kim Holden

“The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, visions of ourselves that we would never see, never permit ourselves to become, in…

— Thomas C. Foster

“The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, versions of ourselves hat we would never see, never permit ourselves to see, never…

— Thomas C. Foster

“People don’t read to enlighten themselves or seek to gain some valuable insight into their own psychology. People read to escape.”

— Dermot Davis

“I think that each of us inhabits a private world that others cannot see. The only difference between the writer and the reader is…

— John McGahern

“I learned a long time ago to never judge a book by its cover. It seems what people try to represent on the outside…

— L.B. Simmons

“Literature starts by being personal, but the deeper we go inside the more we become everybody.”

— Donald Hall

“I am a writer who came from a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring…

— Eudora Welty