Christopher Morley Quotes

I was never bored because I always had a book. So I had a doorway into another world or another universe. It was great.

Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy

Half the time I pick up a book, that's what I'm trying to get.

Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books.

Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.

My idea of heaven is not writing.

I really, really wanted to lose awareness of the here and now. The best way for me to do that was bury myself in a book.

May books and nature be their early joy!

But life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is far and superior to that of muscle and sinew. Let me tell you, if you don't know it from your own experience, that reading a good book, losing yourself in the interest of words and thoughts, is for some people (me, for instance) an incredible intensity of happiness.

Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.

When she wanted to escape her life, she read books

There is no frigate like a book

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age. They support us under solitude, and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. They help us to forget the crossness of men and things, compose our cares and our passions, and lay our disappointments asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride or design in their conversation.

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

I think books were my salvation, they saved me from being miserable.

I get a warm feeling among my books.

In this job, there are some simple pleasures that really help you cope. One is books, I mean, books are a great escape. Books are a way to get your mind on something else.

I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages... and fell into it as into a pool during dry season.

[When] he's here, he's always reading. He says books stop time. I myself think he's crazy...Don't tell anyone, but when he reads something that he likes he gets real happy, turns on the music, and dances by himself, or with a broom sometimes.

Give me a bed and a book and I am happy.

Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.

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

As long as I'm reading, I'm at home.

Books were my passion and my escape from madness.