Beautiful Quote by Paul Auster

Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape -- I didn't read to learn, I was reading to read.

— Christian Bauman

I find reading to be a delight, a source of comfort, a way to explore.

— Junot Diaz

Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. "Book love," Trollope called it. "It will make your hours pleasant to…

— Anna Quindlen

Literature is both my joy and my comfort: it can add to every happiness and there is no sorrow it cannot console.

— Pliny the Younger

I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures.

— Colleen McCullough

Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.

— Karin Slaughter

“Learning to read gave us a true oasis, salvation, in the same way that coming to know Jesus or the Buddha might eventually get…

— Anne Lamott

Reading, not just an escape, but an exercise in living...

— Taylor Caldwell

reading is the soul's salvation

— Jana Oliver

Reading. Reading was the stable backdrop against which my life was played.

— Lynne Sharon Schwartz

“Reading is a sage way to bump up against life. Reading may be an escape, but it is not an escape from my own…

— Gladys Hunt

“Books and reading were my escape. A way to leave this world”

— Jani Kay