Book Quote by Mary Stewart Atwell

“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 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

“There were lives in those books, and deaths. Families and friends and lovers and enemies. Joy and despair, jealousy, envy, madness, and rage. All…

— Jennifer Donnelly

“[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 was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only thing that…

— Sarah J. Maas

“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

“[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

“We live and breathe words. (...) It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest…

— Cassandra Clare

“This particular book felt familiar, like an old friend. The characters drew me into their world, and I blocked out mine for the rest…

— Rebecca Raisin

“To me it was the ultimate book: once you read it, neither your own life nor the world you lived in would ever look…

— Dai Sijie

“I loved books—not only the stories they contained, but the feel of them in my hands, the silk of the pages, the words all…

— Laurelin Paige

“ 'Books had always been my best friends and all I wanted to do was lose myself in them, and better yet if the…

— Fae Sutherland