Anna Quindlen Quotes

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

I'll read pretty much anywhere and anytime, but for a while now, I've really enjoyed reading on flights, especially the longer hauls, when I'm unplugged from everything and can completely immerse myself in the world of a book and submit happily to its rhythms, perspectives, ideas.

Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds.

I get transported when I read books.

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

When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better than turning off and getting lost.

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn't considered pathological, we are outside of time.

Whenever I have a few hours to dive into a book, I am happy.

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

I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.

I don't like anything too heavy. Something I can read, you know, lying in bed that takes me to different world.

I've often thought books give you - put you in a world that you never thought you could go. And I often would say, I don't need to go to California. Give me a book that talks about California. And I can put it in my head and imagine what it looked like.

My portal to another world was fiction.

The hours between eight in the evening and one or two in the morning have always been my magic hours. Against the blue candlewick bedspread the white pages of my open book, illuminated by a circle of lamplight, were the gateway to another world.

When you find yourself alone, or in a transition, you dream more. These are also the times when you read books.

People who read are people who dream, and we connect through the stories we live and tell and read.

The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream.

Books are packaged dreams.

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

I leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own.

I want to be a writer you can always depend on for a good read during your vacation, during your flight, during a time in your life when you want to forget the world around you.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

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.