Jamie Oliver Quotes

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.

One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written.

I read the three 'Hunger Games' books in a week and because I liked them so much I wrote 'Just a Game.'

You'd have to be an idiot to say no to 'Hunger Games.'

'The Hunger Games' has something for everyone.

The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author's world.

I love character and voice, and my favourite books have been the ones in which I've become completely absorbed.

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

As a reader, I happen to like turning pages and wanting to know what happens next.

The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

When I was a kid, I liked books that just seemed so dense you could lose yourself in them for a whole afternoon. They were like their own whole world.

What attracted me to 'The Maze Runner' is its pure action.

The pleasure of reading a story and wondering what will come next for the hero is a pleasure that has lasted for centuries and, I think, will always be with us.

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

I read to be taken out of myself, to become ecstatic.

The printed page was like wine to me.

I had no idea 'The Hunger Games' was so big. I didn't even know the book. I had been living under my own rock.

The true felicity of a lover of books is the luxurious turning of page by page, the surrender, not meanly abject, but deliberate and cautious, with your wits about you, as you deliver yourself into the keeping of the book. This I call reading.

To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing.

Roses. Wolf mutts. Tributes. Frosted Dolphins. Friends. Mockingjays. Stylists. Me. Everything screams in my dreams tonight.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

... the state of rapture I experience when I read a wonderful book is one of the main reasons I read; but it doesn't happen every time or even every other time, and when it does happen, I am truly beside myself.

I seldom get into the mood of the story. It's acting. I go in, I act, I quit. I don't take anything away from it.

Here I am on the shore of Brittany. Let the cities light up in the evening. My day is done. I am leaving Europe. The sea air will burn my lungs. Lost climates will tan me. I will swim, trample the grass, hung, and smoke especially. I will drink alcohol as strong as boiling metal--just as my dear ancestors did around their fires.

I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.