No thanks; I'd much rather pretend I'm somewhere else, and…

I’d much rather pretend I’m somewhere else, and any time I open the pages of a book, that happens.

— Jodi Picoult

“You think of me like a book?' 'Of course,' she said. 'To open your pages is to be taken into another world.”

— Beatrice Colin

Learning is often spoken of as if we are watching the open pages of all the books which we have ever read, and then,…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“We are...two open pages of the same book”

— Hisham Matar

“The fastest way to write is to pretend you have all the time in the world.”

— Philip Gerard

Pretend like it's the weekend, ... We could pretend it all the time.

— Jack Johnson

I'm a performer. I've just been one since I was a little girl. I used to pretend all the time.

— Jamie Lee Curtis

Going into the woods alone is the best way to pretend you're in another time. It's a thing you can only do alone. If…

— Carol Rifka Brunt

You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Usually, the creating of the book happens while I'm writing the book. I start with Chapter One, with a few ideas and a handful…

— Lily King

Life is like a book. There are good chapters, and there are bad chapters. But when you get to a bad chapter, you don’t…

— Brian Falkner

“I’ve read somewhere in a book when something happens that is unbearable to you, sometimes, time stops. Like your inner clock just stops working,…

— Katja Michael

There's almost always a point in a book where something happens that triggers the rest of the plot.

— Jonathan Carroll

“the way I used to turn the pages of a book to find out what happens in the final chapter”

— Rachel Cusk

“I guess what I'm trying to say is that sometimes you can love a book not so much because of what it's about or…

— Sarah Combs