Book Quote by John Clellon Holmes

Books were my pass to personal freedom.

— Oprah Winfrey

Ten guards and the warden couldn't have torn me out of those books. Months passed without even thinking about being imprisoned…I had never been…

— Malcolm X

I realized that I got problems bigger than anything that can happen in prison. So I started reading books, talking to people who had…

— Tee Grizzley

It was as though I had been dying of thirst and the librarian had handed me a five gallon bucket of water. I drank…

— Gary Paulsen

I spent much of my prison time reading. I must have read over 200 large books, mostly fictional stories about the American pioneers, the…

— Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr

The books were a private part of me that I carried inside and guarded and didn't talk to anybody about; as long as I…

— MacDonald Harris

I definitely read a lot in school, and even more in prison.

— Benny the Butcher

I also did some jail time a few years ago. Spent a whole summer in jail reading books. I pumped a ton of new…

— Tommy Lee

I can't imagine I could have become the person I am now without books. Books became synonymous with freedom. They showed that you could…

— Oprah Winfrey

It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.

— Cassandra Clare

Every one of my books had killed me a little more.

— Norman Mailer

The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down after reading it in…

— Paul Auster