Peter Ackroyd Quotes

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

I write out of gratitude for all the books I have loved over the years.

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.

What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!

A little known fact: I read all the time. books were the one thing that got me out of Gatlin, even if it was only for a little while.

I spent many hours ensconced in the local library, reading - nay, devouring - book after book after book. Books were my soul's delight.

I loved to read, and if I could've been a professional reader, that's probably what I would've wanted to be!

One of the joys of a really good book is that you're so into the world of the book, you forget what you're looking at is words on a page.

I was a reader before I was a writer - one of those kids who walked home from school with a book up to my face, about to fall in the proverbial pothole because I couldn't see where I was going. And now I'm one of those people whose books are triple shelved and who can't go anywhere without carrying two titles - one that I'm reading and one backup.

I love reading almost as much as I love writing.

To be transported into another world is my very favourite part of reading.

Six books… my mother didn’t want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books – that I put myself inside them for safe keeping.

Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy

There is no frigate like a book

To me, the point of a novel is to take you to a still place. You can multitask with a lot of things, but you can’t really multitask reading a book.

The joy of reading can take you so many different places. In addition to intelligence and stretching your mind, I just think reading is so crucial in terms of being a well-rounded person.

Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.

We live for books.

Books are becoming everything to me. If I had at this moment any choice in life, I would bury myself in one of those immense libraries...and never pass a waking hour without a book before me.

I’d much rather pretend I’m somewhere else, and any time I open the pages of a book, that happens.

I even love the smell of books.

I have always loved reading. Ever since I was a young girl I had a book by my bed and would get lost in the world of make believe.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading.

What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.

I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.