Adventure Quote by Liam W. Russell

“Though I have been busy, perhaps overbusy, all my life, it seems to me now that I have accomplished little that matters, that the…

— Wallace Stegner

“I could not resist the clarity of the world in books, the incredibly satisfying way in which life became weighty and accessible. Books were…

— Frank Conroy

“[Books] were the world I could lose myself in when the one I was actually living in became too lonely or harsh or difficult…

— Cheryl Strayed

“So why a book? Well, since you’ve come into my life, you’ve been a constant source of entertainment while simultaneously driving me insane. I…

— Jim Gaffigan

“[Books] were the world I could lose myself in when the one I was actually in became too lonely or harsh or difficult to…

— Cheryl Strayed

“Books could be an incredible adventure. I stayed under my blanket and barely moved, and no one would have guessed how my mind raced…

— Paula McLain

“But you're kind of like a great book…you know, you pick up a book at the bookstore because it has a beautiful cover…but it's…

— Miranda Kenneally

“but a book that did what books always promised to do and never actually quite did: get you out, really out, of where you…

— Lev Grossman

“Now I’ve given up any hope of lasting fame or literary perfection. I don’t care if I write a great book anymore, but just…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“The pleasure of this sort of life-bookish, she supposed it might be called, a reading life- had made her isolation into a rich and…

— Louise Erdrich

“I thought that I could make my life into a book that had no life or love in it. . . . Now I…

— Sarah Waters

“A true writer does not seek wealth or fame does seek to find himself in each of his readers souls.”

— Julia Joanne Black