Anita Shreve Quotes

I find it heartening that readers are still excited about diving into a world.

I get transported when I read books.

I'm always reading. I've loved reading since I was young, and I've always loved sinking my teeth into a different world, especially one that you begin to create in your head.

When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.

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

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!

Books could be an incredible adventure. I stayed under my blanket and barely moved, and no one would have guessed how my mind raced and my heart soared with stories.

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

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

I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book.

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

Those of us who know the transporting wonder of a reading life know that it little matters where we are when we talk about books or meet authors or bemoan the state of publishing because when we read, we are always inside, sheltered in that interior room, that clean, well-lighted, timeless place that is the written word.

A book is kind of like a river; I simply jump in and start swimming.

When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.

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.

In a book, you can kind of take time and have lulls in places.

A book suggests a whole world and story that I could have never thought of in a million years.

I love to read things that I'm sure won't make a movie.

What better way to expand your imagination than to read!

Novels are make-believe and play for adults.

As far as what readers can expect with 'Maybe Someday,' I'm not the type of writer who writes to educate or inform my readers. I simply write to entertain them.

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

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.

I was a big reader as a kid, but it was 'Charlotte's Web' that showed me you could feel as if you were actually living inside a book.