Books Quote by 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

“Sometimes you need to completely close yourself off from the outside world and enrich your inner world by reading and thinking because it is…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“..one true thing among all these paths is the need to tap a deep vein of connection between our own uncontrollable interior preoccupations and…

— Andrea Barrett

“Looking through this intimate window, readers have a choice about their own lives. Will they guard their own internal landscapes or lay themselves bare…

— damali ayo

“This is our goal as writers, I think: to help others have this sense of wonder, of seeing things anew, things that catch us…

— Anne Lamott

“novels have the power to transport you into another existence, and see the world from a different point of view.”

— Ella Berthoud

When you read a great book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. There may be a superficial escape – into…

— Julian Barnes

“I believe half of a writer’s job is to, really, take you to another world and give you a view of things, information about…

— Caleb Carr

“Reading is a window that reflects a whole new world”

— Muatau

“Readers read to escape from the world, Author's write to never have to go back to it again.”

— Chami Rupasinghe

“One can travel the world and experience a lot of different things. But until all corners of the mind are openly explored does one…

— Bobby Adair Compton

“...a novel for me is a pretext, a way of starting up and sustaining a complicated and many layered inner exchange, a to-and-fro which…

— Sven Birkerts