Tatiana de Rosnay Quotes

I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.

Reading is as much a part of life as any part, and it's life itself. And it allows us to live other lives that we might not have lived if we hadn't picked up those books.

And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.

Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.

You can cover a great deal of country in books.

Books are packaged dreams.

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

My grandfather says that's what books are for," Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. "To travel without moving an inch.

It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.

A book is like a door. You walk through the cover and you don't know what you're going to find.

When you're a little kid, you are small, your life is small - and you're terrifically aware of that. But when you read, you can ride Arabian horses across the desert, you can be a dogsledder.

One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer.

Books were the window from which I looked out of a rather meager and decidedly narrow room onto a rich and wonderful universe. I loved the look and feel of books, even the smell... Libraries were treasure houses. I always entered them with a slight thrill of disbelief that all their endless riches were mine for the borrowing.

The great thing about books is that you can end with a question mark.

People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.

Books are magic: you never know where they're going to end up.

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.

Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.

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.

There was part of me that wanted to see the world and travel to distant places, but I could only do it in my imagination, so I read ferociously and imagined things.

Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.

I don't know if I can say exactly what I seek in books, but one of them would be to deepen and expand my understanding of the world.

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

Books are wonderful. They are like people, except they mind less when you put them down and wander off to eat something.