A Quote by Colleen McCullough

I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures.

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Colleen McCullough
Australian - Author
Born: June 1, 1937

Reading well is one of the greatest pleasures that solitude can afford you.

Harold Bloom

I think I'm still fed by my childhood experience of reading, even though obviously I'm reading many books now and a lot of them are books for children but I feel like childhood reading is this magic window and there's something that you sort of carry for the rest of your life when a book has really changed you as a kid, or affected you, or even made you recognize something about yourself.

Rebecca Stead

I think for me, home needs to be a sanctuary. I need to feel like I've escaped the day when I get home.

Bella Heathcote

I am a man without many pleasures in life, a man whose few pleasures are small, but a man whose small pleasures are very important to him. One of them is eating. One reading. Another reading while eating.

Amanda Filipacchi

I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy. And yet I cannot pretend that the reading I have done in my adult years matches in its impact on my soul the reading I did as a child. I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Yet it is not the same.

Diane Setterfield

One of the great pleasures of reading Tom Wolfe - of still reading Tom Wolfe - is the sense of awe he consistently inspires.

Tom Junod

I was a high school senior and home alone one night with my younger brother. And a guy - gunman - kicked in our front door at our home in New Jersey and held the two of us captive. We escaped. He caught us again. We escaped again. So, a pretty horrific experience.

James Comey

My folks still live in my childhood home, and so when I'm home with them, I usually feel the best.

Topher Grace

Through reading, I escaped the bad parts of my life in the South Bronx. And, through books, I got to travel the world and the universe. It, to me, was a passport out of my childhood and it remains a way - through the power of words - to change the world.

Sonia Sotomayor

The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading

Vladimir Nabokov

You and I who still enjoy fairy tales have less reason to wish actual childhood back. We have kept its pleasures and added some grown-up ones as well.

C. S. Lewis

I am very lucky that I get to go to work and laugh all day for my day job, and then go home and torture my artistic self.

Reid Scott

I escaped to New York, and then L.A., but when I dream of home, I still dream of my old house in Holmdel.

Lorene Scafaria

(Talks about her childhood) I grew up on a Christmas tree farm in Reading, PA. It was the most magical fun childhood. We had grape arbours and we would make jam with my mom. My dad would go to work and he'd come home. He'd clean out stalls and fix split-row fences.

Taylor Swift

I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and now as an adult and a writer, I'm trying to give a little of it back to others. It's one of the greatest pleasures I know.

Ann M. Martin

I consider myself extremely lucky to have been born and raised in London, and to have had on my doorstep this most fascinating of cities with so many relics of 2000 years of history still to be found in its streets. One of my greatest pleasures was, and still is, exploring London.

Jean Plaidy

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