‎Books admitted me to their world open-handedly, as people for their most part, did not. The life I lived in books was one of ease and freedom, worldly wisdom, glitter, dash and style.

About This Quote

The life I lived in books was one of ease and freedom, worldly wisdom, glitter, dash and style. This life is one of ease and freedom. When we read a book, we enter a world that is free from the world we live in. It is a world of wonder and excitement with books being more enjoyable than reality.

The real world is dull and boring with little to no inspiration being created. It is filled with rules and regulations that limit people's freedom of expression. Books are all about freedom of expression granted to every human being on the planet regardless of our age, race or culture.

For some, books are more enjoyable than reality but for others they are just something that they have to do to fill their time.

Some Similar Quotes

1. A half-read book is a half-finished love affair. - David Mitchell

---

2. The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

---

3. It starts so young, and I'm angry about that. The garbage we're taught. About love, about what's "romantic." Look at so many of the so-called romantic figures in books and movies. Do we ever stop and think how many of them would cause serious and... - Deb Caletti

---

4. I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men."" Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes,... - Jane Austen

---

5. Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you. - E. Lockhart

---

More Quotes By Jonathan Raban

1. ‎Books admitted me to their world open-handedly, as people for their most part, did not. The life I lived in books was one of ease and freedom, worldly wisdom, glitter, dash and style.

---

2. Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.

---