Octavia Spencer Quotes

When you're a little kid, you are small, your life is small - and you're terrifically aware of that. But when you read, you can ride Arabian horses across the desert, you can be a dogsledder.

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

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

She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself.

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

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.

Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.

Books are magic: you never know where they're going to end up.

There was part of me that wanted to see the world and travel to distant places, but I could only do it in my imagination, so I read ferociously and imagined things.

As a kid, books were my great escape and my salvation.

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.

Books are time machines, transporting us out of our own lives into other times and other places.

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

I've often thought books give you - put you in a world that you never thought you could go. And I often would say, I don't need to go to California. Give me a book that talks about California. And I can put it in my head and imagine what it looked like.

Books are the perfect Time Machine. By the simple act of opening a book you can, in an instant, be travelling up a jungle river without once being bitten by mosquitoes, or you can almost die of thirst in the desert while holding a cold drink in your hand, or dine in the finest restaurants and never have to worry about paying the bill, or ride the wild country of our western frontier and never worry about losing your scalp to a raiding party.

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.

It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.

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.

Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it. I was going to be a lawyer, but I got saved.

Books were the window from which I looked out of a rather meager and decidedly narrow room onto a rich and wonderful universe. I loved the look and feel of books, even the smell... Libraries were treasure houses. I always entered them with a slight thrill of disbelief that all their endless riches were mine for the borrowing.

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