Anthony Doerr Quotes

For me reading a book is what I like doing, curled up in a corner in a comfortable chair.

I was always a big reader, even when everything was bad and miserable.

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.

Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.

One of the most important elements of my identity is my identity as a reader. I love to read - really, if I'm honest with myself, it's practically the only activity that I truly love to do.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

I read all the time. I love it. My fantasy would be to be locked into a library. I'd be very, very happy.

For some of us, books are intrinsic to our sense of personal identity.

I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.

I get transported when I read books.

I'm always reading. I've loved reading since I was young, and I've always loved sinking my teeth into a different world, especially one that you begin to create in your head.

I think the written word is my first love. I was just a very imagination - centered child and a big part of that imaginary life came from reading.

Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.

I'm obsessed with books. When a good book hits me, it's all I can think about and all I can do.

I'm the sort of person who would be perfectly happy spending an entire day in a rare books room.

What better way to expand your imagination than to read!

For me, reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt.

It's funny that I got to do 'On the Road' because the thing that had the biggest impact on me growing up was reading books. I was very inspired by the book and this spirit of Dean Moriarty and how envious we all are of somebody who can be that carefree.

Honestly, my entire childhood could be summed up with one word: Reader. I was always hunched over a book; in fact, I was the only kid in the world who got paler in the summer, because I'd sneak down into our cool, dank cellar and sit alone with a book for hours.

Cooking is great, love is grand, but souffles fall and lovers come and go. But you can always depend on a book!

We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'

Every single book is a challenge.

When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.

I absolutely love reading; it is a fantastic way of unwinding.

I really have lived in books. Books are friends. They are some of the friends that make you who you are.