Book Quote by John Waters

School was a source of great suffering to me, but once I learned to read, I disappeared into books, where I was a happy…

— Sue Grafton

I was not happy as a child, although from time to time I was content. I lived in books more than I lived anywhere…

— Neil Gaiman

When I was a teenager, I thought if any of my friends or people at school see me reading a book, they're gonna think…

— George Pelecanos

I didn't go to school a full year until I was 11 or 12, so I lived in books. I really was an observer of life.

— Gloria Steinem

Reading was my escape growing up in Ohio. Both of my parents lost their jobs when I was a teen, and it was hard.…

— Anna Todd

It wasn't my choice to be an open book, but when people found out what my life was like when I was 14 or…

— Drew Barrymore

I went to a regular school... education kept me sane.

— Romeo Miller

The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things I was…

— Mary MacLane

I was okay with school. My sister Kourtney was extremely smart. I always read a little slower. She was really mean to me. She…

— Kim Kardashian

And when I was young, did I ever tell you, I always wanted to get inside a book and never come out again? I…

— Peter Ackroyd

It wasn't until I was 23 and got married to a guy who was really bookish that I got completely hooked on reading and…

— Lisa Jewell

When I was growing up, my parents thought there could be nothing better than being a writer. And at that time, society afforded that…

— Alissa Quart