Janet Fitch Quotes

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

The hours between eight in the evening and one or two in the morning have always been my magic hours. Against the blue candlewick bedspread the white pages of my open book, illuminated by a circle of lamplight, were the gateway to another world.

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

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

Songs you can dip in and out of, but a book... well, it can overpower you.

I get transported when I read books.

We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.

I really, really wanted to lose awareness of the here and now. The best way for me to do that was bury myself in a book.

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

The house was quiet and the world was calm. The reader became the book.

I crawled into my book and pulled the pages over my head.

When she wanted to escape her life, she read books

There is no frigate like a book

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

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.

All true readers have a book, a moment when real life is never going to be able to compete with fiction again.

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

He would go somewhere no one knew him, and he would sit in a library all day and read books and listen to people breathing.

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.

Afterwards, in bed with a book, the spell of television feels remote compared to the journey into the page. To be in a book. To slip into the crease where two pages meet, to live in the place where your eyes alight upon the words to ignite a world of smoke and peril, colour and serene delight. That is a journey no one can end with the change of a channel. Enduring magic.

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

I like that you can open up any one of my books anywhere and immediately be lost. I just love them so much.

When I'm in the middle of a book it can go up from there. When you're putting in those hours, the real world kind of fades and the world you're creating becomes almost more real to you than the outside world.

I find reading to be a delight, a source of comfort, a way to explore.

As long as I'm reading, I'm at home.