“I’d much rather pretend I’m
somewhere else, and any time I open
the pages of a book, that happens.”

“I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page”

Laurie Halse Anderson book Chains

“I should like to freeze in time all those I do love… Rather like flowers pressed between the pages of a book!”

Sharon Kay Penman (1945) American historical novelist

“An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.”

Brandon Mull (1974) American fiction writer

“Everything that I do is very autobiographical. I’m trying to be as much of an open book as possible and give the audience every single piece of me.”

Dua Lipa (1995) English singer and songwriter

“When I am with you, there is nowhere else I'd rather be. And I am a person who always wants to be somewhere else.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

“Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it.”

Roberto Bolaño book The Savage Detectives

“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

“(Sylvia at typewriter) On Getting Old in America. By Sylvia. Page One. 1. Best to do it somewhere else.”

Nicole Hollander (1939) Cartoonist

“Open the book. (The gilt rubs off the edges of the pages and pollinates the fingertips.)”

Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) American poet