Book Quote by Fran Lebowitz Download Open image “To lose yourself in a book is the desire of the bookworm. I mean to be taken. That is my desire.” — Fran Lebowitz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Book Desire Books Bookworm Bookworm Mean Bookworms Desire Desire Bookworm Lose Book Lose yourself Losing yourself Mean Reading Taken Writer
The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author's world. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
Being lost in books has to be one of the best feelings it's like you can escape reality and live in your own fantasy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
while one can lose oneself in a book one can never be thoroughly unhappy. — Edith Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Nothing takes you out of yourself the way a good book does, but at the same time nothing makes you more aware of yourself… — Wendy Lesser Copy Share Image
Why do you want to read others' books when there is the book of yourself? — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Books allow you to be whoever you want to be, to escape yourself for a while. — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
“A longing for books [is] nothing compared with what you [can] feel for human beings. The books [tell] you about that feeling. The books… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a… — Rebecca Mead Copy Share Image
“There are few things better than losing yourself in a book. And if you're lucky enough to have that adventure continue in a series,… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Why not have your first baby at sixty, when your husband is already dead and your career is over? Then you can really devote… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I think humor is warmer, and wit is colder. Wit is judgment, whereas humor invites some sort of response. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Communists all seem to wear small caps, a look I consider better suited to tubes of toothpaste than to people. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“lack, or loutish and crass kollective is a program dedicated to the proposition that vulgarity and bad taste are an inalienable right. the lackies,… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
[Friendships] are easy to get out of compared to love affairs, but they are not easy to get out of compared to, say, jail. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Smoking is, as far as I'm concerned, the entire point of being an adult. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
When it comes to sports I am not particularly interested. Generally speaking, I look upon them as dangerous and tiring activities performed by people… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
The first time I ever saw platform shoes in the '70s, I knew they'd been revived from the '40s, and I felt sickened. And… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Children ask better questions than adults. "May I have a cookie?" "Why is the sky blue?" and "What does a cow say?" are far… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image