Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes

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.

We read to find life, in all its possibilities.

I think that's one of the most important things that books do: not to teach you anything, but to help you teach yourself by just being in the world of the book and having your own thoughts and reactions and noticing your own reactions and thoughts and learning about yourself that way.

One of the fantastic things about books, fiction or non-fiction, is the way they give you a chance to look into different lives.

I like down-to-Earth characters, but I also like being able to get outside my box of knowledge.

We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey.

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.

I don't live in books, but, boy, have books amplified my life.

I can't imagine not being in a phase where I'm trying to understand something or create something. That's the essence of life.

Today I continue with my science-fiction reading habit and find it very mind-expanding. Always makes me think.

I think that we all absolutely have curiosity. It brings about knowledge. It's energizing. It's spiritually empowering. It makes us more interesting as people.

I was always at my best when I was learning, when I was curious. When I had yet to see past the next horizon.

I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges. I always said the only reason to make a film is not for the result but for what you learn for the next one.

The old adage is, 'Write what you know.' But if you only do that, your work becomes claustrophobic. I say, 'Write what you want to know.'

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

I'm constantly learning, and that is the greatest gift of life in my opinion - to always be learning and growing.

I've always wanted to broaden my horizons.

Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

I was a little truth seeker as a child. I wanted more than anything to understand myself and also other people.

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.