Debi Gliori Quotes

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.

I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.

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

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 love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy.

My interest in fantasy began pretty much when I started to read.

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

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

When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.

I always loved having the chance to disappear in a story. I always was kind of obsessed with that.

I came from a house full of books, so I took reading for granted. I was an outdoorsy little kid, too, so I got the best of both worlds by taking books up trees and reading there.

Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.

I grew up reading a lot of fantasy/sci-fi.

Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds.

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.

When I was a teenager I was a total romantic escapist. My world was books.

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

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

I started re-reading 'Harry Potter' just to throw myself back into my childhood. I forgot how awesome the books are.

Books are packaged dreams.

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.