“People talk about books being an escape...this one feels more like a lifeline.” — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
When I read books it's to escape. It's so I don't have to talk to people. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“Even before I learned what I was, books were my escape from the world. This place . . . bookstores, libraries . . . they’re the closest thing… — Jim C. Hines Copy Share Image
“I wanna know something,” Lexi said. “In mystery books, clues come flying out of nowhere in every single chapter. Why is ours… — Vila Gingerich Copy Share Image
“People talk about books being an escape, but here on the tube, this one feels more like a lifeline...The motion of the… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“I do not believe the fable that men read travel books to escape from reality: they read to escape into it, from… — Alex Comfort Copy Share Image
“It is not uncommon in the modern world for people to retreat into the world of books to escape from the realities… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
“Cyril Connolly, twentieth-century writer and critic, wrote that ‘words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.’ That… — Nina Sankovitch Copy Share Image
“People talk about books being an escape, but here on the tube, this one feels more like a lifeline. As she leafs… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“Books. The more I thought about how to stop and get myself back together as one sane, whole person, the more I… — Nina Sankovitch Copy Share Image
“Books have always been my escape - where I go to bury my nose, hone my senses, or play the emotional tourist… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image