Christine

“Like so many of the other books I read, it never seemed to me like a book, but like a place I had lived in, had visited and would visit again, just as all the people in them, every blessed one – Anne of Green Gables, Heidi, Jay Gatsby, Elizabeth Bennet, Scarlet O'Hara, Dill and Scout, Miss Marple, and Hercule Poirot – were more real than the real people I knew.”
― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

“Every reader, I suspect, has a book like this somewhere in his or her past, a book that seemed to hold within it, at that moment, all the mysteries of the universe.”
― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

“There are only two ways, really, to become a writer. One is to write. The other is to read.”
― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

“I lived within the cover of books and those books were more real to me than any other thing in my life.”
― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life