Nile Rodgers Quotes

Travelling is a great time to catch up on my reading. It's hard falling asleep in new places, but a good book always makes it easier.

Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.

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

And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.

Books are the perfect Time Machine. By the simple act of opening a book you can, in an instant, be travelling up a jungle river without once being bitten by mosquitoes, or you can almost die of thirst in the desert while holding a cold drink in your hand, or dine in the finest restaurants and never have to worry about paying the bill, or ride the wild country of our western frontier and never worry about losing your scalp to a raiding party.

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

My grandfather says that's what books are for," Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. "To travel without moving an inch.

I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.

All vacations can come down to a few little moments - what do your remember when you're alone, totally relaxed and taken out of yourself to appreciate this other world.

We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'

The great thing about books is that you can end with a question mark.

Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.

A book store is a treasure chest. Every time you walk in one, you strike gold.

People who read on holiday always have a better time because it's total escapism, both physically and mentally.

I read a lot of fiction.

Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films! - but it's nice to have an excuse to just sit and read for a whole day.

I don't normally have time to read, so when I go away I like to take a few books.

Reading is as much a part of life as any part, and it's life itself. And it allows us to live other lives that we might not have lived if we hadn't picked up those books.

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.

Holidays can become tedious without something to read.

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.

To read is to voyage through time.

Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.

You can cover a great deal of country in books.

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