Books Quote by Richard Wright

It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a…

— Richard Wright

“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

“I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much for reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what…

— Anne Tyler

“Novels can tell us so much about life. They have the power to enrich our own lives in so many different ways. They're not…

— Victoria Connelly

“I lived within the cover of books and those books were more real to me than any other thing in my life.”

— Anna Quindlen

“I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much more reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what…

— Anne Tyler

“All novels are impossible. We would not wish to read them if they were not. Can you imagine how dull a tale would be…

— Caitlin Williams

“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

“Don't you think it would be interesting if you could read the story of your life - written perfectly truthfully by an omniscient author?”

— Jean Webster

“... we read novels because they give us the comfortable sensation of living in worlds where the notion of truth is indisputable, while the…

— Umberto Eco

“Novels should reflect reality to some extent, otherwise they risk being sentimental.”

— Marc Levy

“Books had always been a comfort to me, an escape from reality when reality got to be too real.”

— Julie Fisher