Jonathan Nolan Quotes

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

Books are time machines, transporting us out of our own lives into other times and other places.

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

As a child, I spent a lot of time at the library.

I grew up reading science fiction.

Books were my Internet, my TV, my movies all rolled into one.

I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There’s a whole new world in books. If you can’t afford to travel, you travel mentally through reading. You can see anything and go any place you want to in reading.

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

When I was a young boy, I loved spending hours in St. Franics Xavier's school library at Saint Louis University. The feel of the books in my hands and the magical new worlds I discovered always drew me back to that fantastic place. Each time I visited, I could expect to find a new adventure and from time to time use my imagination to revisit my favorite place and enjoy Green Eggs and Ham in a house, with a mouse, on a train, on a plane, in a box, with a fox.

A book is a device to ignite the imagination.

Books light the fire-whether it's a book that's already written, or an empty journal that needs to be filled in.

He would talk to them of stories and books, and explain to them how stories wanted to be told and books wanted to be read, and how everything that they ever needed to know about life and the land of which he wrote, or about any land or realm that they could imagine, was contained in books. And some of the children understood, and some did not.

Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what sense other people have made of it. If people give you a hard time and tell you to get your nose out of a book, tell them you're working. Tell them it's research. Tell them to pipe down and leave you alone.

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.

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

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?

I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and that's why I always read books, and I could go to Mars or Middle Earth or the Hyborian age.

What better way to expand your imagination than to read!

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

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.

Books do furnish a room.

If you have a book, you have a friend.

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.'

Even the worst book can give us something to think about.