Susan Wiggs Quotes

Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone.

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.

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

Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.

I wanted to find a place to hide from all of it, where the nightmares and the rivers and reality couldn't find me. For me, that place was always inside a book.

As long as we have books, we are not alone.

I have always loved reading. Ever since I was a young girl I had a book by my bed and would get lost in the world of make believe.

I was alone as a child. I lived in fairytales, adventures, Shakespeare. They are the friends, my books.

If you have a book, you have a friend.

I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.

One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.

Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.

Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.

Ordinary people don't know how much books can mean to someone who's cooped up.

Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy

From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood.

When she wanted to escape her life, she read books

There is no frigate like a book

you can not fully read a book without being alone. But through this very solitude you become intimately involved with people whom you might never have met otherwise, either because they have been dead for centuries or because they spoke languages you cannot understand. And, nonetheless, they have become your closest friends, your wisest advisors, the wizards that hypnotize you, the lovers you have always dreamed of. -Antonio munoz molinas, "the power of the pen

Books are packaged dreams.

Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

[Books] will visit you at your convenience, whether you are lonesome or not, on rainy days or fair. They propose themselves as either transient acquaintances or permanent friends. They will stay as long as you like, departing or returning as you wish. Their friendship entails no obligation. Best of all, and not always true of our merely human friends, they have Cleopatra's infinite variety.

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

This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.