Reading Retreat Quotes

When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library.

Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.

I don't normally have time to read, so when I go away I like to take a few books.

The library was like a second home. Or maybe more like a real home, more than the place I lived in. By going every day I got to know all the lady librarians who worked there. They knew my name and always said hi. I was painfully shy, though, and could barely reply.

I would prefer to have one comfortable room well stocked with books to all you could give me in the way of decoration which the highest art could supply.

I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool night air in the suburbs.

In my college years, I would retreat to our summer house for two weeks in June to read a novel a day. How exciting it was, after pouring my coffee and making myself comfortable on the porch, to open the next book on the roster, read the first sentences, and find myself on the platform of a train station.

I take refuge in my books.

It didn’t matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.

I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.

I was a library rat and a bookworm. I read all the time. I walked to school reading books. I read under my desk.

The hours between eight in the evening and one or two in the morning have always been my magic hours. Against the blue candlewick bedspread the white pages of my open book, illuminated by a circle of lamplight, were the gateway to another world.

Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.

A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the mind; hospitals of the soul; theme parks of the imagination. On a cold, rainy island, they are the only sheltered public spaces where you are not a consumer, but a citizen, instead.

Now I'll read anytime, anywhere. I love reading in front of the space heater. Isn't that a sad confession? But it's like my substitute for the roaring fireplace of yore.

I think relaxation is escaping from your everyday encounters. You can read the words on a page and be transported to somewhere else. And the more consumed you are with it, the more you're cocooned.

Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate!