Book Quote by Edna O'Brien

But what struck me was the book-madness of the place--books lay scattered across the unmade bed and the top of a battered-looking desk, books…

— Steven Millhauser

Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out…

— Dean Koontz

I fell into the books, and left myself there for safekeeping.

— Jeanette Winterson

When we got around to books, I was finally set, as our minister would say, on solid ground. I gorged on books. I sneaked…

— Lorene Cary

That was the - It was an exciting time because it was as though I was sort of tied up in a paper bag…

— Robert McCloskey

I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an…

— Joseph Conrad

Books have always been my home. I ransacked the library regularly from the time we moved to the States. I read on the fire…

— Mitali Perkins

“I am a product [...of] endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them. There…

— C.S. Lewis

I spent many hours ensconced in the local library, reading - nay, devouring - book after book after book. Books were my soul's delight.

— Nikki Grimes

Books could be an incredible adventure. I stayed under my blanket and barely moved, and no one would have guessed how my mind raced…

— Paula McLain

Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room piled high with cases in my father's name; Piled high, packed large, where, creeping…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I was a library rat and a bookworm. I read all the time. I walked to school reading books. I read under my desk.

— Chelsea Cain