Prescription: 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. Take ten pages, twice a day, til end of course.
I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.
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.
Since the choice of what we curl up with is often crucial for our solace and sanity, we need to learn how to nurture the talent of selection. Book browsing is a meditative art...Books are as essential as breathing.
I turned to books for comfort. (Former First Lady, Laura Bush)
...at it's best fiction is medicine.
I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.
There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.
I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
I take refuge in my books.
I feel like people who become writers are people who have been saved by books.
Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.
Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.
The truth is, I can’t read anything with any distance. Every book is a self-help book to me. Just having them makes me feel better.
I'm a big believer in bibliotherapy. Books have the power to change lives: what we think and what we do.
I used music and reading to erase my world, so basically I read for up to 16 hours a day for 23 years.
I'm a big believer in bibliotherapy.
Books are medicine and you have to take the right medicine that you need at that moment or that day or that time in your life.
