Dan Savage Quotes

I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.

Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.

One of the great things about books is you can afford to do anything.

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.

Books are wonderful. They are like people, except they mind less when you put them down and wander off to eat something.

I like to read, even though it was really tough, because I could go anywhere in the world in a book, and I could have so many adventures in a book.

I grew up in a small town in India, but through books I knew the world.

There's books that are about places we will never go, and then there's books that inspire us to go.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.

When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.

A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.

Reading is as much a part of life as any part, and it's life itself. And it allows us to live other lives that we might not have lived if we hadn't picked up those books.

I read a lot when I'm travelling and always have a couple of books on the go.

I just love stories, and I love movies, learning and seeing the world. Growing up in Iowa, it was like, you wanna see the world? Movies can help you do that.

The beauty of reading is that it lets you travel in a way you could never know.

I would read. I would explore

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

My grandfather says that's what books are for," Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. "To travel without moving an inch.

I understood right from the start that every set of library doors were the sort of magic portals that lead to other lands. My God, right within reach there were dinosaurs and planets and presidents and girl detectives!

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

There is that romanticized idea of what a bookstore can be, what a library can be, what a shop can be. And to me, they are that. These are places that open doors into other worlds if only you're open to them.

I have a lot of respect and love for children's books.

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.