Garrett Hedlund Quotes

I have a lot of respect and love for children's books.

One of the great things about books is you can afford to do anything.

I grew up in a small town in India, but through books I knew the world.

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

When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I can write anywhere.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children.

Every single book is a challenge.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.

In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read.

When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.

I feel very privileged to have reached so many kids because a life without stories, without the power of books, would be a very grey world, it's good to add colour.

A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.

I love being an illustrator because I get to read really great stories, work with amazing people, travel and see places I never would've seen. And I get to draw all the time.

When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.

I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.

My first memory of the Harry Potter series was my little brother just falling into those books and not resurfacing until he was done. That J.K. Rowling got an entire generation reading is extraordinary - I'm amazed, thrilled, and proud to now be portraying one of that phenomenal writer's characters.

I read a lot of books. I read because it inspires me and shows me paths that I could never imagine. Sometimes those paths are horrible and sad, and sometimes they are hopeful and amazing. Not always are they paths to the future, and sometimes the paths are actually about the past but make sense when applied to the future. Books are amazing.

I have two rules for a great book: make me think and make me smile.

There is no frigate like a book

As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the clouds.

Books are packaged dreams.

Reading is where the wild things are.

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.