Junot Diaz Quotes

Reading was my escape growing up in Ohio. Both of my parents lost their jobs when I was a teen, and it was hard. But I always had my books. Reading gave me a way of living different lives.

I was never bored because I always had a book. So I had a doorway into another world or another universe. It was great.

Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.

Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age. They support us under solitude, and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. They help us to forget the crossness of men and things, compose our cares and our passions, and lay our disappointments asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride or design in their conversation.

In this job, there are some simple pleasures that really help you cope. One is books, I mean, books are a great escape. Books are a way to get your mind on something else.

No matter how people mess with you or let you down, or how you let yourself down, a good book means that when you get in bed that night, you have a good hour. I feel like you pay all day for that hour. That's what books mean to me. I can open this two-dimensional , flat white page with squiggly little black marks on them, and someone has created this world that you're going to enter into.

When I go on vacation, I take very few clothes and a whole lot of books. It's the most soothing thing in the world. Reading 'Moby-Dick' is like being in a time machine. I almost feel as excited as the first time I read it and I always find something new.

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

I take refuge in my books.

We all face difficulties of our own, and how comforting it is to immerse yourself in a book - my book, any book, any romance. It's entertainment, it's escape, and it can even be an inspiration!

Books are like my one and only joy.

Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films! - but it's nice to have an excuse to just sit and read for a whole day.

I really just love to read, period, whether it be books or magazines or the back of the cereal box. It's the one thing I can always count on to calm me down, take me away and inspire me, all at once.

Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places.

Books have literally powered most of my life. Whether as a stress relief when doing hard things or as vacation fodder, they are a constant and important part of my life.

I get transported when I read books.

Ordinary people don't know how much books can mean to someone who's cooped up.

If you're going to binge, literature is definitely the way to do it.

There is no frigate like a book

Half the time I pick up a book, that's what I'm trying to get.

Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.

I think books were my salvation, they saved me from being miserable.

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

Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.

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.