Book Quote by Richard Peck Download Open image “When I read a good book, it's like traveling the world without ever leaving my chair.” — Richard Peck ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Chairs Good book Leaving Traveling The World World
“You can travel the world and never leave your chair when you read a book.” — Sherry K. Plumer Copy Share Image
I love to travel, but when I really want to escape, I read a book. — Jean Craighead George Copy Share Image
“A book is a magical thing that lets you travel to far away places without ever leaving your chair.” — Katrina Mayer Copy Share Image
Reading a book, for me at least, is like traveling in someone else's world. If it's a good book, then you feel comfortable and… — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
Usually when I'm on a plane, I try to enjoy the fact that I have to be still for eight hours and read a… — Michiel Huisman Copy Share Image
When you read books, you kind of create that whole world in your mind, and you go on a journey with the author of… — Mary Steenburgen Copy Share Image
I don't like to travel. Yet all my books seem to involve a journey. — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
I always travel with one book. I'll read it and then leave it for someone else, and take another book. — Patrick J. Adams Copy Share Image
It's like reading a book about a life that you will never occupy, but that's the beauty of being transported. — Sarah Jessica Parker Copy Share Image
A good novel is an out-of-self experience. It lifts you off the ground so that you have the sensation of flying. It says, 'Look… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
There's still nothing like a book to really make you feel like you've disappeared into a world. — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
I don't normally have time to read, so when I go away I like to take a few books. — Paloma Faith Copy Share Image
I caught a glimpse of happiness, and saw it was a bird on a branch, fixing to take wing. — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
I read because one of these days I'm going to get out of this town, and I'm going to go everywhere and meet everybody,… — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
...they'd just tell you to turn the other cheek, wouldn't they?...Trouble is, Mrs. Dowdel observed, after you've turned the other cheek four times, you… — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
“The Shambaughs came, bringing Letty. She simpered up to me. Her eyes summed up the lace tippets on my Princess dress and the wide… — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
Writing is communication, not self-expression. Nobody in this world wants to read your diary except your mother. — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
The years went by, and Mary Alice and I grew up, Slower than we wanted to, faster than we realized. — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
“I read because one life isn't enough, and in the page of a book I can be anybody; I read because the words that… — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
Grandma, how old is she?" "Oh I don't know." Grandma said. "You'd have to cut off her head and count the rings in her… — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
