Book Quote by Edith Roosevelt

The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author's world.

— Jeff Bezos

For, so long as there are interesting books to read, it seems to me that neither I nor anyone else, for that matter, need…

— Selma Lagerlöf

To lose yourself in a book is the desire of the bookworm. I mean to be taken. That is my desire.

— Fran Lebowitz

“Losing yourself in a book is the best”

— Anonymous

To leave a book is like leaving the better part of oneself.

— Dacia Maraini

When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.

— Jules Renard

Books make up no small part of human happiness.

— Frederick The Great

Great books are written from a sense that there is nothing to lose.

— Matthew Specktor

“[Books] were the world I could lose myself in when the one I was actually living in became too lonely or harsh or difficult…

— Cheryl Strayed

“What I needed was to lose myself in a good book, one with tons of sex and angst, complete with an unbelievable happily-ever-after that…

— J. Lynn

One is never as happy or as unhappy as one thinks.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I think it's hard to write a book about happiness because fiction requires tension and complication.

— Edwidge Danticat