Books Quote by Liesa Mignogna

“Through the use of books I had the whole world at my feet: could travel anywhere, meet anyone, and do anything.”

— Benjamin Carson

“All books are escapism. They are life with the boring bits cut out.”

— Jean Chapman

“Books are one thing I love above all else. In a story, I can become anyone, travel any place. In those pages lives my…

— Sherry D. Ficklin

“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

“You see, Armand, there was a new hunger within me, and on some days I can assure you I felt fairly ravenous. The need…

— Tatiana de Rosnay

“Instead, what I was beginning to understand was that however things unfolded from here on, whatever the next chapter was, my life could never…

— Anonymous

“I was in the book, and the book was in my head, and as long as I stayed inside my head, I could go…

— Paul Auster

“[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

“I took my time, running my fingers along the spines of books, stopping to pull a title from the shelf and inspect it. A…

— Beth Pattillo

“More and more I lived in books, they were my comfort, refuge, addiction, compensation for the humiliations that attended contact with the world outside.”

— Lorna Sage

“The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, versions of ourselves hat we would never see, never permit ourselves to see, never…

— Thomas C. Foster

“I wasn’t meant to wander around the world by myself. I was meant to be with the people I loved, the people who loved…

— Lori Brighton