Alive Quote by Haruki Murakami

The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before. Books and…

— Haruki Murakami

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

— Patti Smith

Books opened up a whole new world to me. Through them I discovered new ideas, traveled to new places, and met new people. Books…

— Judy Blume

Books admitted me to their world open-handedly, as people for their most part, did not. The life I lived in books was one of…

— Jonathan Raban

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 was a very quiet kid who didn't feel normal being outgoing and running around, so all the beauty that was in my life,…

— Alison Sudol

I think I have probably adjusted the way I see the world, I interpret the world and I communicate the world into book format…

— Jackie French

Books showed me there were possibilities in life, that there were actually people like me living in a world I could not only aspire…

— Oprah Winfrey

Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard.

— Alice Walker

I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to…

— R. A. Salvatore

The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books could you…

— Cornelia Funke

All my life, books have felt alive; some more so than people, or rather, some people. Alive - this has to do with me,…

— Andrea Barrett