Libba Bray Quotes

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

'Charlotte's Web,' which I read sitting on my mother's lap, was the most emotional experience: that was when I made the leap from seeing how to untangle words to realizing how books both contain and convey strong feelings.

When I was a little girl, my first link to the world was as a reader. Sometimes, I feel a nostalgia for those times, for all the emotions I felt as a child - discovering novels, discovering Dickens, Balzac, or Dostoevsky. I wanted to be like those men.

I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a writer.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

It's the rare book that's able to transport you in a way that a movie does.

I was read to as a small child, I read on my own as soon as I could, and I recall being more or less overwhelmed again and again - if not by what the books actually said, by what they suggested, what they helped me to imagine.

I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.

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.

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

When I get lost in a book, it's just, like, magical!

I read books when I was a kid, lots of books. Books always seemed like magic to me. They took you to the most amazing places. When I got older, I realized that I couldn't find books that took me to all of the places I wanted to go. To go to those places, I had to write some books myself.

Stories have a special way of putting us inside the people, inside the boots of the soldiers. You're absorbed in a way a documentary or nonfiction can't do for you.

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

When I give myself over to a good novel, I surrender to the truths fashioned from one writer's heart, mind and soul. I do not waste a nanosecond wondering whether what I'm reading 'really happened.'

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.

A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book since they were children. Sadly, being taught literature often destroys the life of the books.

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

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

When I was a kid, I read books that made me laugh but also made me shiver in terror. I wanted to make books that made other people feel the same way.

I just love the idea that people disappear into the story for a while. You grab a book, and you want to get back to it, and your life becomes a bit of an interruption. I would love readers to feel like that.

When a book is alive, really alive, you feel it. You put it to your ear here, and you feel it breathe, sometimes laugh, sometimes cry, just like a person, a little person.

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

Like many readers, I am continually in search of books that allow me to lose myself in an entirely unique universe.

When we read a book, we have a blurry image that's kind of physical but blurry. But we have an emotional image also. We have an emotional connection to the character.