Isaac Asimov Quotes

Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy

When she wanted to escape her life, she read books

Life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is far superior to that of muscle and sinew.

So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.

If I couldn't use food or love to define contentment, I would use reading.

Books are like my one and only joy.

I try to find where the fun is and go there and then get asked if I want to have more fun. That's the way I want my life to go. Follow the fun.

My books and other works are my legacy, and it's a great comfort to know that mine is a legacy of pleasure for other people.

There is no frigate like a book

There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes.

One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining.

Books admitted me to their world open-handedly, as people for their most part, did not. The life I lived in books was one of ease and freedom, worldly wisdom, glitter, dash and style.

When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.

And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it!

There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.

[When] he's here, he's always reading. He says books stop time. I myself think he's crazy...Don't tell anyone, but when he reads something that he likes he gets real happy, turns on the music, and dances by himself, or with a broom sometimes.

What would make me happiest is if kids read these books [Bink & Gollie] and think: there is so much to love in the world; and words are so much fun.

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.

...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.

School was a source of great suffering to me, but once I learned to read, I disappeared into books, where I was a happy visitor to all the worlds that sprang full-blown from the printed page.

Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.

For me, reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.

Children's literature is one of my joys, and it's also my mental comfort food.