Top 94 Reading Escape Quotes
#1. Reading always calmed me down: filling my head with other - made up - people's problems and conflicts made my own seem less terrible, less real.
Heather James
#3. 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
#4. Reading is a way to escape the real world. Writing is a way to create a new one.
Giuseppe Bianco
#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. For me, reading was adventure,but most of all, reading was escape-
Andrew E. Kaufman
#7. 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
#8. There is no other escape like a book. Reading expands your mind and opens your world to a myriad of possibilities.
Fran Veal
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. Reading serves as a good escape when you're in the middle of doing crazy things.
Carly Rae Jepsen
#13. I was always able to lose myself in reading. Books were a necessary escape I always gladly jumped into headfirst.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#14. As a kind of castaway myself, I was happy to escape into the fictional world of someone else's trouble.
Octavia E. Butler
#15. A person can escape an ingrained pattern of mental incapacity or 'non compos mentis' ("no power of the mind") by reading, writing, thinking, and studying their environment for telling external determinates that will shape a journey of the mind, body, and soul.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#16. This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world.
Michael Ondaatje
#17. Writing stories is my way of scratching that itch: my escape from the claustrophobia of individuality. It lets me, at least for a while, live more than one life, walk more than one path. Reading, of course, can do the same.
Emma Donoghue
#18. 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
#19. Reading is a way to escape the inescapable
Louise
#20. Some people become passionate readers and fans of science fiction during childhood or adolescence. I picked up on SF somewhat later than that; my escape reading of choice during my youth was historical novels, and one of my favorite writers was Mary Renault.
Pamela Sargent
#21. 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
#23. 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
#24. Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.
Lemony Snicket
#25. I spent most of my free time reading. It was a great escape from reality
Teresa Mummert
#26. I spent the rest of the day in someone else's story. The rare moments that I put the book down, my own pain returned in burning stabs.
Amy Plum
#27. People talk about books being an escape, but here on the tube, this one feels more like a lifeline ... The motion of the train makes her head rattle, but her eyes lock on the words the way a figure skater might choose a focal point as she spins, and just like that, she's grounded again.
Jennifer E. Smith
#29. 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
#30. 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. I spent much of my prison time reading. I must have read over 200 large books, mostly fictional stories about the American pioneers, the Vikings, Mafia, etc. As long as I was engrossed in a book, I was not in prison. Reading was my escape.
Frazier Glenn Miller
#33. Reading is a breezy journey to enjoy, not a whirlwind to escape!
Balroop Singh
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. I spent my entire time reading books and going to the cinema, just to escape.
Michael Caine
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.
Paul Auster
#42. 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
#43. Reading had always been my lifeline
an escape to that imaginary world where hurts were fictional and endings happy ...
Phyllis A. Whitney
#44. Reading is, at its best, not an escape; it is genuine experience. A novel is not a monologue, but a conversation, a collaboration between writer and reader, an invaluable exchange of human conditions.
Jonathan Evison
#45. What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.
Alice James
#46. For me, reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt.
Geri Halliwell
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
W. Somerset Maugham
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. I spend my life writing fiction, so reading fiction isn't much of an escape. That's not always true, but I don't read much contemporary fiction.
Alan Furst
#54. Reading was my hobby, my sport and my activity of choice. It was the prime pleasure of my days, an unfailing escape from whatever realities were distressing me, and the only source of pride I knew, other vanities lying beyond my grasp. I couldn't do anything else well, but I could do words.
Cynthia Voigt
#55. Writing is an escape from life reading is living a different life.
Sofia Kennedy
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. Moreover, people have become accustomed to reading to escape as opposed to reading to think.
Leigh M. Lane
#60. Meredith immersed herself in the novels. For some reason, fiction hit on the meaning of life so much more concisely than real life itself did.
Elin Hilderbrand
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. To imagine wasn't to escape but to go deeper; to see through to the secret life of the world.
Alison MacLeod
#65. Read until my eyes ached
it was hardly important
but proof again that there is always an escape.
Lily Koppel
#67. Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.
David Mitchell
#68. Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie.
Eckhart Tolle
#69. 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
#70. A book acts as the getaway car when you need to escape.
Even when you're the one writing it.
Julie Wright
#71. 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
#73. There's something to be said about the escape reading gives you." It
Samantha Joyce
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#78. Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.
Karin Slaughter
#79. Reading is an escape, an education, a delving into the brain of another human being on such an intimate level that every nuance of thought, every snapping of synapse, every slippery desire of the author is laid open before you like, well, a book.
Cynthia Heimel
#80. 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
#81. There was, for many of us, a great escape in reading about the fantastic and supernatural during wartime. Terrors more terrible than those we were living through gave us an outlet for our anxiety.
M.J. Rose
#82. You don't read to exercise the mind but to take voyages
John Geddes
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. Every time you think of escaping mentally or physically, grab the book that lies inches away from your heart.
Muna Adnan Naqi
#88. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something about the world.
Umberto Eco
#89. 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
#90. Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape
I didn't read to learn, I was reading to read.
Christian Bauman
#91. Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors
we hope
of your life come from reading fiction.
Orson Scott Card
#92. Reading is an escape from the outside world. Everyone needs a little of that to keep their sanity.
Kim Holden
#93. She read novels. One book after another, sometimes at the rate of one a day, for a solid year. An acceptable form of escape that didn't leave a hangover.
Wendy Wax
#94. Reading, not just an escape, but an exercise in living ...
Taylor Caldwell
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