Amber Heard Quotes

Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid.

When I was growing up, the place I felt least alone was when I was reading.

I feel happy and secure when I'm on my bed with a good book... I forget everything which is terrible in our world.

Once you've got a child to the point that they've discovered books, they're safe. There's a world of the imagination that when they're hurt or upset, they can move into, and it is wonderful.

Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places.

Films were really my church. As a young kid, it was movies and books; it was nothing remarkable, really, just that is where I felt soothed, that is where I felt most myself... safest.

I have many reasons why I think reading is really important. It provided for me a refuge, especially during difficult times. It provided me with the notion that I could find an ending that was different from what was happening to me at the time.

Reading was my escape growing up in Ohio. Both of my parents lost their jobs when I was a teen, and it was hard. But I always had my books. Reading gave me a way of living different lives.

I don't think of literary novels as self-help documents, although literature undoubtedly saved my life when I was young, enabling me to disappear into all manner of stories, to recognise feelings that I felt alone in.

What I would most like to think they would take away, is what I take away when I read my favorite books. Which is the knowledge that there is always somewhere you can go, that you love, and where you're safe. And that's how I feel about my favorite books, wherever I am, if I've got that book with me, I've got a place where I can go and be happy. So if that place is Hogwarts for anyone, then I couldn't be more honored or humbled.

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

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

A well-chosen book saves you from everything, including yourself.

Reading serves as a good escape when you're in the middle of doing crazy things.

I take refuge in my books.

My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.

During my 'difficult teens,' I read about worlds that were mysterious.

When I was 13 or 14, I started devouring novels; literature took quite a while to take me over, but it caught up just in time to save me from becoming a mathematician.

I think I'd go mad if I didn't have a place to escape to.

When I'm really stressed out, I go to church. I light candles and sit and pray. And I'll ask myself, What's the lesson? Why am I going through this? There's got to be a reason I'm here. What am I supposed to learn?

Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

As a kid, books were my great escape and my salvation.

Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.

We find ourselves attached to fantasy worlds sometimes when it's hard to process what's going on in our world. It's reassuring to see the good winning.