Ayobami Adebayo Quotes

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.

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

Like many readers, I am continually in search of books that allow me to lose myself in an entirely unique universe.

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

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.

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.

Reading should be a pleasure, not a chore.

Ultimately, in my mind, that's what I'm trying to do with my fiction; I'm trying to transport my reader into a different world.

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

When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world.

When I was a kid, I liked books that just seemed so dense you could lose yourself in them for a whole afternoon. They were like their own whole world.

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

When you read books, you kind of create that whole world in your mind, and you go on a journey with the author of that book. I think that's really a good thing.

When I'm absorbed in a work of fiction, time and place melts away, as though I've drifted away from my usual reality and been absorbed into another.

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.

I’d much rather pretend I’m somewhere else, and any time I open the pages of a book, that happens.

It's not magic that takes us to another world - it's storytelling.

I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Nights. Slowly, like a movie fadeout, the real world evaporates. I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favourite feeling in the world.

I often want to go to the movies and see something that transports you beyond the infinite.

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

As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.

Part of the beauty of fiction is that we come alive in a body that we don't own.

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.

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