Always Quote by A. A. Milne

Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out…

— Dean Koontz

“Books and reading were my escape. A way to leave this world”

— Jani Kay

I spent my whole childhood looking for an escape.

— Dennis Rodman

Writing children's books all started out as a way for me to give back and make a difference.

— Coy Bowles

I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid,

— Carl Hiaasen

And when I was young, did I ever tell you, I always wanted to get inside a book and never come out again? I…

— Peter Ackroyd

I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures.

— Colleen McCullough

“Books allow us to escape from the pressures of modern life. By far, the best vehicles of escape are Young Adult Science Fiction or…

— Peter Graham

I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much more fun…

— Ellen Potter

“​Escaping into books had been my only relief in life”

— Abbi Glines

I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.

— Uma Thurman

“I went from escaping into books to extracting things from them, from being inspired by books to trying to do things that inspired me—many…

— Pamela Paul