Quotes About Reading To Escape Reality

#1. Everyone should read at least 10 books in their lifetime - it helps your mind, develops your imagination, and can help you escape your reality.

Megan Wilson

#2. Firstly, though we have to clean this blood up off the tiles before it dries. It is far easier to clean the blood up while it's still wet."
"How do you know this stuff?" Grace said completely baffled.
"Dexter," Angela said shrugging and thinking that was as good an explanation as any.

Patti Roberts

#3. It is often while you are looking for something else entirely that you make the most amazing finds.

Marissa Moss

#4. 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

#5. Read to escape reality . . . Write to embrace it.

Stephanie Connolly

#6. 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

#7. Time doesn't obey our commands. You cannot make it holy just because it is disappearing.

Meghan O'Rourke

#8. [ ... ] it doesn't take much courage to fight when you still believe you can win. What takes real courage is to keep fighting when all hope is gone.

Matthew Polly

#9. Know that you have complete control over what you put in your mouth. No one ever ate anything by accident.

Charles Poliquin

#10. I spent most of my free time reading. It was a great escape from reality

Teresa Mummert

#11. I thought of all the summer evenings I'd spent sitting in the chairs under the trees beside the trailer, reading books that helped me escape Creek View, at least for a little while. Magical kingdoms, Russian love triangles, and the March sisters couldn't have been further away from the trailer park.

Heather Demetrios

#12. Reading is my escape when reality sucks

Wency June Z. Libot

#13. If I can tell my story, and help anybody else in the interim, then that's icing on the cake.

Jeff Conaway

#14. My name is Dorian Alexander, and this is a story about a girl who would change my life forever.

Carlos Dash

#15. He, that same man, after having abandoned her, finds her after a night of orgie, pale and leaden, forever lost, with hunger on her lips and prostitution in her heart.

Alfred De Musset

#16. Not only did
I love her,
but I could tell
the universe loved
her, too.
More than others.
She was different.
After all; I would
be a fool not to
notice the way the
sunshine played with
her hair.

Christopher Poindexter

#17. I Came away from the U.S. Memory Championship eager to find out how Ed and Lukas did it. Were these just extraordinary individuals, pridigies from the long tail of humanity's bell curve, or was there something we could all learn from their talents?

Joshua Foer

#18. I've always used music for my acting, and I do have a kind of a very personal play list that I create.

Jonathan Tucker

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.

Karin Slaughter

#22. Every time you think of escaping mentally or physically, grab the book that lies inches away from your heart.

Muna Adnan Naqi

#23. Hurray for standardized valve systems!

Andy Weir

#24. 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

#25. She is a friend to my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, ya know, when you got a woman who's a friend to your mind.

Toni Morrison

#26. One of the things that makes any good entertainment, whether it's a play, drama, comedy, television, film, whatever, is that you feel a certain amount of spontaneity.

Glenn Howerton

#27. How can you not love reading? It's wonderful. An excursion, an adventure ... an escape from reality.' She adored reading and had a hard time grasping anyone not loving it.

Robin Caroll