J. Michael Straczynski Quotes

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

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

I read a lot growing up. It was kind of my comfort, you know; I loved it. I love story. I love narrative. I was academic. I wasn't particularly athletic. I didn't make the drill team. I didn't go out for sports.

I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home was the book to which I came back every evening.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Books are like my one and only joy.

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

I'd go to the library so I could sit in a big, quiet room and listen to pages being turned. There was a boring librarian who everyone in fifth grade hated. But I loved her because when she would read us stories in her soft voice, she'd turn my head into a snow globe.

I read a lot when I'm travelling and always have a couple of books on the go.

Books are time machines, transporting us out of our own lives into other times and other places.

When I was a small child, I partially learned to read with comics, in particular with 'Scamp,' about the Lady and the Tramp's male child. That was the prime comic that made me fall in love with comics as a kid.

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

I like to read, even though it was really tough, because I could go anywhere in the world in a book, and I could have so many adventures in a book.

Books have literally powered most of my life. Whether as a stress relief when doing hard things or as vacation fodder, they are a constant and important part of my life.

I long for books; I am utterly greedy about them.

I'm a sucker for lost worlds. I was nostalgic even as a child. I was happiest in my hometown library in Adams, Mass., where nothing seemed to change.

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

I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and that's why I always read books, and I could go to Mars or Middle Earth or the Hyborian age.

I was always a big reader, even when everything was bad and miserable.

I discovered that in a story I could safely dream any dream, hope any hope, go anywhere I pleased any time I pleased, fight any foe, win or lose, live or die. My stories created a safe experimental learning place.

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

My interest in fantasy began pretty much when I started to read.

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

Books do furnish a room.

If you have a book, you have a friend.