Angst Quote by Elizabeth Kostova

As a teenager, I felt so hemmed in and trapped, both by the place I lived and the expectations others had about school, college,…

— Sabaa Tahir

Even today, I hunt for the fabulous books that will change me utterly. I find myself happiest in the middle of a book which…

— Pat Conroy

“These books were a way of escaping from the unhappiness of my life.”

— Charles Dickens

Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction of despair.

— Marilynne Robinson

Part of the reason I went to college was that I wanted to fade out peacefully: show everybody I had gone through something that…

— Cole Sprouse

When I was a journalist... toward the end of my career, it had started to feel like there was this revolving door of misery…

— Cord Jefferson

Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into…

— George Eliot

“[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

“Pride, oh pride—a friend from the past, a bodyguard of the present, and an enemy of the future. Books, oh books—a friend from the…

— Mark O'Brien

“Many of us are driven to write through experiences born from pain, generating a need to uniquely express our own inner turmoil. Light-hearted inspiration…

— Keith Steinbaum

When I was small and easily wounded books were my carapace. If I were recalled to my hurts in the middle of a book…

— Lauren Groff

Reading 'Youth in Revolt' might have ruined my career because suddenly I wanted to abandon all the emotional truth of something and just go…

— Rob Thomas