All men who read escape from something else into what lies…

“Read to escape reality . . . Write to embrace it.”

— Stephanie Connolly

“i read to escape reality.”

— Thelastchloe

All men who read escape from something else into what lies behind the printed page; the quality of the dream may be argued, but…

— Raymond Chandler

“When we escape into a book, become absorbed into it, are magically transported, nothing becomes more visible, upon our return, than the edges that…

— Tiffany Eberle Kriner

At the end of the day, despite all the other great things that literature does in society and in a person's life, I think…

— Tea Obreht

“People don’t read to enlighten themselves or seek to gain some valuable insight into their own psychology. People read to escape.”

— Dermot Davis

“People read to escape reality. I write to give them realities to escape to.”

— Radcliff Lance

“I read to escape...I write to help others escape... --Howard Hopkins, Author of The Chloe Files”

— Howard Hopkins

“Readers read to escape from the world, Author's write to never have to go back to it again.”

— Chami Rupasinghe

“Escape to Read and Read to Escape!”

— Maggie Thom

“I didn’t read to escape. I didn’t even read to be entertained. It was more elemental, more essential than that. I read because imagination…

— Katie Ray

“We read not to escape, but to go deeper into life.”

— Joseph Monninger

“I think it’s undignified to read for the purposes of escape…. If you read for escape you will never try to change your life,…

— M. John Harrison

A lot of times, people say that people read to escape. But I think if you come from any community that is underrepresented, in…

— Sofia Quintero

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

— Friedrich Nietzsche