Jennifer Weiner Quotes

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.

When I was 10 years old, I loved - I loved books, and I used to haunt the secondhand bookshop. And I found a little book I could just afford, and I bought it, and I took it home. And I climbed up my favorite tree, and I read that book from cover to cover. And that was Tarzan of the Apes. I immediately fell in love with Tarzan.

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

I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book.

When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and dramatic stories - and my absolute favourite was 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.' Everything about it electrified me, and when I re-read Roald Dahl's books as an adult it surprised me.

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

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.

I don't live in books, but, boy, have books amplified my life.

To be transported into another world is my very favourite part of reading.

To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing.

A book is a door, you know. Always and forever. A book is a door into another place and another heart and another world.

...what will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stumbling on things we never meant to find?

Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another 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.

Reading a story should be a fabulous, wonderful thing. The most important thing that parents can do for kids is to read with them and to let their kids see them reading books for their own pleasure.

My greatest wish — other than salvation — was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One I could read again and again, with new eyes and a fresh understanding each time.

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.

The true felicity of a lover of books is the luxurious turning of page by page, the surrender, not meanly abject, but deliberate and cautious, with your wits about you, as you deliver yourself into the keeping of the book. This I call reading.

When I was a young boy, I loved spending hours in St. Franics Xavier's school library at Saint Louis University. The feel of the books in my hands and the magical new worlds I discovered always drew me back to that fantastic place. Each time I visited, I could expect to find a new adventure and from time to time use my imagination to revisit my favorite place and enjoy Green Eggs and Ham in a house, with a mouse, on a train, on a plane, in a box, with a fox.

The more I read, the hungrier I become. Each book seemed promising, each page I turned offered an escapade, the allure of another world, other destinies, other dreams.

When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener.

I have always loved books, and as a mother, I wanted to share my passion for reading with my children.

In fact, isn't it a joy - there is hardly a greater one - to find a new book, a living book, and to know that it will remain with you while life lasts?

Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.