Book Quote by Malcolm X

But all I could think of was taking some books to read in jail. I held everybody up, choosing which ones to take.

— John Clellon Holmes

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

Books were my pass to personal freedom.

— Oprah Winfrey

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

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 suppose that it was inevitable that my word-base broadened. I could now for the first time pick up a book and read and…

— Alex Haley

I held out my book. It was precious to me, as were all the things I'd written; even where I despised their inadequacy there…

— Tanith Lee

I dropped all the guards. All the leashes, all the chains, everything that ever restrained me through the discipline and fear of discovery, I…

— Ilona Andrews

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

When I first went to jail in 1960 with seven classmates trying to use their public library against the backdrop of my father being…

— Jesse Jackson

If only I could manage, without annoyance to my family, to get imprisoned for 10 years, "without hard labour," and with the use of…

— Lewis Carroll

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