Book Quote by Patty Duke

“For a long time I used to go to bed early. Sometimes, when I had put out my candle, my eyes would close so…

— Marcel Proust

I've come to think of myself as a writer of books.

— Richard Hell

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

“[When under stress I thought of] the books I had read [and applied] them to myself. I [imagined I was] one of the characters…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I found myself jealous of the people who wrote the books. They were dead and they were still taking up my time. Who did…

— Ned Vizzini

“I could not resist the clarity of the world in books, the incredibly satisfying way in which life became weighty and accessible. Books were…

— Frank Conroy

“That’s why I read, as a stranger, My being as if it were pages. Not knowing what will come And forgetting what has passed,…

— Fernando Pessoa

“I pretended to be an open book, but I was closed off and conceited.”

— Coco J. Ginger

“All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling…

— Diane Setterfield

“I know who I was, I can tell you who I may have been, but I am, now, only in this line of words…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

So it was this multi-perspective, multi-character book, and it went through all of these different manifestations. I'm not sure there was a single moment…

— Danielle Dutton

It's very hard to know who your readers are, but that's who I'm... if I have somebody in my head, that's probably who it…

— Louis Menand