Marley Dias 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.

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

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.

I just love the idea that people disappear into the story for a while. You grab a book, and you want to get back to it, and your life becomes a bit of an interruption. I would love readers to feel like that.

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

I always loved having the chance to disappear in a story. I always was kind of obsessed with that.

Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.

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'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.

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

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.

When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.

Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.

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

Once I opened a book, I felt compelled to finish it. I was drawn into a world, and I had to know what would happen, how it would end.

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

It's the rare book that's able to transport you in a way that a movie does.

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

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

I think one of the reasons that I like fiction versus nonfiction is that I myself can kind of disappear from the story.

I get transported when I read books.

When I create a story, I can make it however funny, sad, or happy I want it to be. And when I read, I feel like I'm in the story, and I get to experience it. It feels like I'm watching someone else do something, but I'm doing the thing that the character is doing as well.

I love entering the bowels of the cinema and immersing myself in another world.

Reading is a heady thing. You can be into the action of someone's thoughts and take a whole trip down someone's ruminations while seconds tick by in the world that they're in, but you can't really do that in film.

Stories have a special way of putting us inside the people, inside the boots of the soldiers. You're absorbed in a way a documentary or nonfiction can't do for you.