Book Quote by MacDonald Harris

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

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

When I was growing up, books took me away from my life to a solitary place that didn't feel lonely. They celebrated the outcasts,…

— Jodie Foster

We live and breathe words. It was books that kept me from taking my own life after I thought I could never love anyone,…

— Cassandra Clare

Too, some of my teachers helped me to navigate those books, showed me the maps and paths and secret decoder rings - people like…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

Books were my pass to personal freedom.

— Oprah Winfrey

For a long time, I thought you could remain isolated and survive, and I didn't want to change that. But over the last three…

— Daniel Woodrell

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

When I was a kid, I liked books that just seemed so dense you could lose yourself in them for a whole afternoon. They…

— Chris Ware

Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out…

— Dean Koontz

The wonderful thing about books is that they allow us to enter imaginatively into someone else’s life. And when we do that, we learn…

— Katherine Paterson

It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a…

— Richard Wright