When you read a good book, you don’t escape from life, you…

When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.

— Julian Barnes

“A writer must get beyond the thrill of a byline, plunge deeper than the words themselves, and dive head-on into a bottomless pit where…

— Kathleen M. Rodgers

“you should not escape from life so love it”

— chaitanya

[Art is] an attempt to escape from life.

— H. L. Mencken

I can understand wanting to escape your life and be someone else.

— Inbar Lavi

“Truth won't escape you, but life can be cramped.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“You cannot escape from life. Life is not a book. You can't just set it down on the coffee table and walk away from…

— Rebecca Wells

Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can

— Louisa May Alcott

Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy.

— Stephen King

“One thing I will surely miss is that I couldn't read all the good books in this lifetime.”

— Amit Kalantri

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now…

— Allan Bloom

“Forget boys and read a good book. Or study. When you're twenty-five and ranking in the big bucks, men will be falling all over…

— Stephie Davis

For me, I would rather read a good book, from a contented author. I don't really care what it takes to produce that.

— Neil Gaiman

“I'd had the idea, once, that if I could get the chance before I died I would read all the good books there were.…

— Wendell Berry

“when ever you read a good book somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light”

— Vera Nazarian