Book Quote by Frederick Buechner

I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.

— Patti Smith

When I was a kid, I liked books that just seemed so dense you could lose yourself in them for a whole afternoon. They…

— Chris Ware

Like a house in the rain, books were havens of permanence and protection from whatever it was that as a child I needed protection…

— Frederick Buechner

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 liked books - the respite and privacy of them - books about plants and the formation of ice and the business of world…

— Tim Winton

As a kid books changed how I looked at the world and helped me understand things. Books still deepen me and open my heart.

— Kate DiCamillo

I didn't like books where people played on a sports team and won a bunch of games, or went to summer camp and had…

— Daniel Handler

I was a kid who loved to read. I read everything I could get my hands on. I didn't have one favorite book. I…

— Kate DiCamillo

The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I've read so often that I've internalized them in some really essential way:…

— Donna Tartt

The best books I read as a child were set in far-flung places, but also portrayed characters experiencing a life far removed from my…

— Dawn Foster

I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home was the book to…

— Alberto Manguel

As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.

— Talulah Riley