literary retreat Quotes

And you love to read, you love to escape, right?

Books were safer than other people anyway.

They go in [to the library] not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.

A little known fact: I read all the time. books were the one thing that got me out of Gatlin, even if it was only for a little while.

My home was in a pleasant place outside of Philadelphia. But I really lived, truly lived, somewhere else. I lived within the covers of books.

When she wanted to escape her life, she read books

At the end of the day, despite all the other great things that literature does in society and in a person's life, I think that we read to escape. And I think that place, more than anything, provides that escape quickly, if an author is engaged with the place.

Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.

It was actually books that started to make those pockets of freedom, which I hadn't otherwise experienced. I do see them as talismans, as sacred objects. I see them as something that will protect me, I suppose, that will save me from things that I feel are threatening. I still think that; it doesn't change. It doesn't change, having money, being successful. So from the very first, if I was hurt in some way, then I would take a book -- which was very difficult for me to buy when I was little -- and I would go up into the hills, and that is how I would assuage my hurt.

There'll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you'll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended on it.

Staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps.

Anyone who has got a book collection/library and a garden wants for nothing.

What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week.

To distract myself from tiresome thoughts, I have only to resort to books; they easily draw my mind to themselves and away from other things.

One day, when I own a house, I'll keep a library full of books. Books are different from other possessions-they're more like friends.

Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, "The world is quiet here," as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.

I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.

I lay on the bed and lost myself in stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyways.

Dad is always hiding in his book.

I read books, but I do it because I want to - because it's like an escape in my head, like being with you.

I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?

Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.

One can only snort so many ants and have so much sex before one starts to long for the comfort and companionship of a good book.

I have spent a reasonable percentage of my life in libraries - I like the hush.

Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?