David Mitchell Quotes

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

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

I am a bookworm.

I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

I'm a bookworm.

I have a library, and it's like I want to beat Belle on 'Beauty and the Beast' and have a better library than she had.

And when I was young, did I ever tell you, I always wanted to get inside a book and never come out again? I loved reading so much I wanted to be a part of it, and there were some books I could have stayed in for ever.

Reading is one of the greatest forms of magic available to us on the planet.

All true readers have a book, a moment when real life is never going to be able to compete with fiction again.

Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books.

A library is the door to many lives.

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

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 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.

Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?

...and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her.

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

I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.

Reading keeps me sane. Growing up, it was my scape, my alternative; it provided both rebellion and peace.

That's what books are for... to travel without moving an inch.

When you're touched by magic, nothing's ever quite the same again. What really makes me sad is all those people who never have the chance to know that touch. They're too busy, or they just don't hold with make-believe, so they shut the door without really knowing it was there to be opened in the first place.

I spent my life in the library reading books.

You're never alone when you're reading a book.

I prefer to be left alone with my books.