Top 58 Quotes About Reading To Escape
#1. I want a good love story and a happy ending. Period. I don't want to deal with real life shit in a book. I'm reading to escape.
R.L. Griffin
#2. All this time I thought you were reading to escape the world, but now I know, you didn't read to escape it, you read to discover it.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#3. I run to get out, when I have been stuck inside, reading to escape from life, not even able to sit up straight in my tiny bunk. I run to feel like I am doing something, when I am overwhelmed by all the things I can't do anything about.
Jay Allison
#4. Moreover, people have become accustomed to reading to escape as opposed to reading to think.
Leigh M. Lane
#5. Young people looking for adventure fiction now generally turn to fantasy, but for those of a certain age, the spy thriller has long been the escape reading of choice.
Michael Dirda
#6. I don't believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.
Lawrence Durrell
#7. There is no other escape like a book. Reading expands your mind and opens your world to a myriad of possibilities.
Fran Veal
#8. Adventurous reading allows one to escape a little from the provincialities of one's home culture and the blinders of one's narrow self.
Michael Dirda
#9. You read a lot?" Galina finally asked.
"Yes. It's an escape into another world." She tried to keep her words light instead of sad, thoughts of her family in her head. "Sometimes that is the best part of a hard day.
Anne Mallory
#10. As a kind of castaway myself, I was happy to escape into the fictional world of someone else's trouble.
Octavia E. Butler
#11. Fiction should be a place of lollipops and escape. Real life is depressing enough
I, for one, don't want to read about make believe misery, too.
Nicole Christie
#12. Reading is a way to escape the inescapable
Louise
#13. I merely say that all reading for pleasure is escape, whether it be Greek, mathematics, astronomy, Benedetto Croce, or The Diary of the Forgotten Man. To say otherwise is to be an intellectual snob, and a juvenile at the art of living.
Raymond Chandler
#15. He let the hours go by lost in the magic of words, shedding his skin and his name, feeling like another person. He allowed himself to be carried away by the dreams of shadowy characters, the only refuge left for him.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#16. I spent my entire time reading books and going to the cinema, just to escape.
Michael Caine
#17. There's something to be said about the escape reading gives you." It
Samantha Joyce
#18. Reading is a gift. It's something you can do almost anytime and anywhere. It can be a tremendous way to learn, relax, and even escape. So, enough about the virtues of reading. Time to read on.
Richard Carlson
#19. Reading is a way to escape the real world. Writing is a way to create a new one.
Giuseppe Bianco
#20. The best thing about reading is to escape from your life, to be able to live hundreds or even thousands of different lives.
Anna Todd
#21. I was always able to lose myself in reading. Books were a necessary escape I always gladly jumped into headfirst.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#22. What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.
Alice James
#23. Reading had always been my lifeline
an escape to that imaginary world where hurts were fictional and endings happy ...
Phyllis A. Whitney
#24. Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out the side door).
William Maxwell
#25. Fiction was a way for me to escape into another world. I would lose myself and all my shame, insecurity, and fear in those books. I would let time slip away in the pages of other worlds. Reading was a life long gift I grew to cherish.
Daniel D. Maurer
#26. Writing has always allowed me to escape. I was a very lonely child. Because I was very socially awkward, I would always have trouble making friends. And so reading and writing allowed me to have friends and to have an active imaginary life that really sort of kept me sane.
Roxane Gay
#27. There are so many books left to read. For that reason alone it is worth going on living. Books make me happy, the help me escape from reality.
Felix J. Palma
#28. She read to find out what it was like to be French or Russian in the nineteenth century, to be a rich New Yorker then, or a Midwestern pioneer. She read to discover how not to be Charlotte, how to escape the prison of her own mind, how to expand, and experience.
Penelope Lively
#29. Reading is a breezy journey to enjoy, not a whirlwind to escape!
Balroop Singh
#31. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way
my attention deficit disorder medicates itself.
Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to
make contact with reality after a day of making things up.
Nora Ephron
#32. Sexual activity is driven by the same aims and motives as reading poetry or listening to music: to escape the limitations imposed by the need for particularity in the consciousness.
Colin Wilson
#33. And we can read - there is always the prospect of escape, through books."
"Books are not a means of 'escape', Meta! Books are a means of knowledge, and of learning how to cope with the future.
Joyce Carol Oates
#34. A book acts as the getaway car when you need to escape.
Even when you're the one writing it.
Julie Wright
#35. Reading was both a gift and a curse for me. Those books made me able to escape into a world I'd never experienced, but at the same time, they reminded me of all the things I'd been missing.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#36. To imagine wasn't to escape but to go deeper; to see through to the secret life of the world.
Alison MacLeod
#37. Reading a good book is an escape to an alternative life, writing a good book is the closest thing to actually living that life.
Chas Scott
#38. Reading was not just an escape or a Band-Aid; it was a deep form of feeling seen and recognized, and being able to see and recognize other kindred spirits. My dad was a writer, too, which also likely had something to do with that.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#39. I also like to escape inside their world,
tucked behind their colorful spines. It forces me to fully invest
my mind into what I'm doing, not just my ears or my eyes.
Katie Kacvinsky
#40. I walked to the bookcase and examined the storybooks inside. As a girl, I had dreamed of having stacks of books at my disposal
stories to get lost in, other worlds to live in when mine was so bleak.
Sarah Jio
#41. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.
Nora Ephron
#42. Often, when I am able to check out a book, I read it a dozen times before returning it, desperate to remain lost in the magic of someone else's story.
Amy Engel
#43. The attraction of reading is that it allows you to live, for a few hours, as someone else - grants you access to their head, their thoughts, their secrets.
Alessandra Torre
#44. In this job, there are some simple pleasures that really help you cope. One is books, I mean, books are a great escape. Books are a way to get your mind on something else.
George W. Bush
#45. To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
W. Somerset Maugham
#46. Through reading, the modern man succeeds in obtaining an "escape from time" comparable to the "emegence from time" effected by myths. ( ... ) Reading projects him out if his personal duration and incorporates him into other rythms, makes him live in another "history".
Mircea Eliade
#47. Reading is an escape from the outside world. Everyone needs a little of that to keep their sanity.
Kim Holden
#48. Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape
I didn't read to learn, I was reading to read.
Christian Bauman
#49. As children we read to escape - to enter fantasy worlds where a bespectacled boy can discover he's a wizard or a brave girl can find a magical passage through a wardrobe. But we also read to find reflections of ourselves.
Chelsey Philpot
#50. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something about the world.
Umberto Eco
#51. That's what reading was for my mother, and became for me - a way to escape, a private time machine, a place that began with moral instruction but soon morphed into empathy and imagination.
Ramona Koval
#52. It doesn't matter what you read. What matters is you read. Whether it's Tolstoy or Twilight, Kierkegaard or Betty and Veronica, keep reading, and don't ever let somebody else - anybody - have a say about, or try to control, what you choose to learn from and/or escape into.
Trent Zelazny
#54. You don't read to exercise the mind but to take voyages
John Geddes
#55. Reading had always been another world for him. Not an escape, since he rarely sought escape ... writers had to confront the world if they were going to observe it accurately ... but another world nonetheless. One filled with powerful voices relaying even more powerful thoughts.
Dan Simmons
#56. Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.
Karin Slaughter
#57. Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#58. Reading was my only escape from reality. Through books, I could be whoever I wanted. I could fall in love with the handsome prince, travel to exotic places, and take the leap that almost always had a happy ending.
Teresa Mummert
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