Believe Quote by Oprah Winfrey

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer…

— Oprah Winfrey

“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

“Unquestionably the discovery of the Mississippi is a datable fact which considerably mellows and modifies the shiny newness of our country, and gives her…

— Mark Twain

“Books were a safe place, a world apart from my own.”

— Kiera Cass

“Books can be the people we never get to meet, ancestors or far neighbors.”

— Elizabeth Knox

“So I had nothing to distract me from my books and their other worlds that swallowed me whole, from Narnia to the Wisconsin woods,…

— Luisa Weiss

“My parents weren't interested in recommending books to me. Reading was an act of revolution, therefore I was expected to find my own way.…

— Ianthe Brautigan

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

— Benjamin Carson

“There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom. But reading is still the path.”

— Carl Sagan

“I certainly couldn't have survived my childhood without books. All that deprivation and pain--abuse, broken home, a runaway sister, a brother with cancer--the books…

— Junot Díaz

“All the old houses that I knew when I was a child were full of books, bought generation after generation by members of the…

— Katherine Ann Porter

“I realized right away that books could take us out of ourselves, and make us larger. Even provide us with human connections we wouldn’t…

— Masha Hamilton