Book Quote by Dorothy Allison

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

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

I think books were my salvation, they saved me from being miserable.

— Amy Tan

My love of books was all that saved me.

— Anonymous

Honestly, so much of my book is about the best things in my life have happened since I'm 40.

— Carol Leifer

So I kept reading, just to stay alive. In fact, I'd read two or three books at the same time, so I wouldn't finish…

— Marc Acito

I literally feel like books saved my life. I found these people. Me reading Camus and Kafka, all of the tortured teenager stuff of…

— Nathan Englander

I was carried away, swept along by the mighty stream of words pouring from the hundreds of pages. To me it was the ultimate…

— Anonymous

Good books that often I would hate to finish because they took me into their lives and let me out of mine, for a…

— Ron McLarty

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

— Jamie Craig

I invite you, wholeheartedly, to read books that remind you of your highest self and emancipate you from mental slavery or false beliefs and…

— Carlos Santana

I try to have each book be an antidote to the one before.

— Colson Whitehead