Books Quote by Edmund White

“Some days I tell myself that my mission is to say something about the art and sometimes the bliss of limitation. And the legibility…

— Fredrik Sjöberg

“Sometimes a book that appeared dull or off-putting would somehow still draw you in, call to you, and when you finally embarked on the…

— Liam W. Russell

“More and more I lived in books, they were my comfort, refuge, addiction, compensation for the humiliations that attended contact with the world outside.”

— Lorna Sage

“Books have given me great stores of happiness, but if I am honest with myself I can see they have also taken something away.…

— Kyo Maclear

“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

“I could not resist the clarity of the world in books, the incredibly satisfying way in which life became weighty and accessible. Books were…

— Frank Conroy

“As long as I can remember I have been carelessly casting myself uninvited into novels where no self-respecting novelist would have me. This literary…

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

“There's a reason for every journey, and mine was prompted by boredom and the recklessness of youth, by a wish to break the bounds…

— Walter Moers

“I spend my life folded between pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived loss…

— Tahereh Mafi

“Through the use of books I had the whole world at my feet: could travel anywhere, meet anyone, and do anything.”

— Benjamin Carson

“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lives loss…

— Tahereh Mafi

“My ideal life is a quiet one. I like to read, to sit still in the same chair, with the lampshade at a certain…

— Charles D'Ambrosio