Anzia Yezierska Quotes

When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I can write anywhere.

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

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

Every book that you pick up takes you a step away from your real world, but if you read a book about magic, it takes you an extra two steps.

It's like reading a book about a life that you will never occupy, but that's the beauty of being transported.

Even as a kid, my memories are of books taking me out of myself.

I think we all like to get away from our troubles and worries with a good book.

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.

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.

I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.

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

There are days where I lose track of time, of place, of everything else, because I've been transported to another universe.

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

One of the great things about books is you can afford to do anything.

When I was little, I was a voracious reader, and that really led me to acting as well. I loved being transported into someone else's life, and that's what reading provided me. I also really love to entertain people.

I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.

If I can make people forget whatever they're dealing with for an hour and a half, two hours every night, that's nice.

I have many reasons why I think reading is really important. It provided for me a refuge, especially during difficult times. It provided me with the notion that I could find an ending that was different from what was happening to me at the time.

Reading takes me to a different place than my everyday life. I usually get fully involved in what I'm reading about, so it's a great escape.

Books have literally powered most of my life. Whether as a stress relief when doing hard things or as vacation fodder, they are a constant and important part of my life.

On any given day, if I play the guitar, I can put myself somewhere. I always thought, 'This is the way you go.' It's like a magic carpet, see?

I get transported when I read books.

My portal to another world was fiction.

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

Reading is one of the greatest forms of magic available to us on the planet.