Books Quote by Ann Patchett

“A book acts as the getaway car when you need to escape. Even when you're the one writing it.”

— Julie Wright

“I went out to eat on a restaurant’s opening night. It was packed! I guess people heard I’d be dining there and came to…

— Jarod Kintz

“Be careful what you tell me. You could end up in my next novel.”

— P.C. Zick

“As a kind of castaway myself, I was happy to escape into the fictional world of someone else's trouble.”

— Octavia E. Butler

“Careful, or you'll end up in novel.”

— Anonymous

“A book can be an escape from the house.”

— Dore Ashton

“When tragedy hits close to home, like your neighbor’s house, it really makes you stop and think. And while you’re thinking, I’ll be speeding…

— Jarod Kintz

“...the book like a sleigh left my lap...”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Books because are the vehicle that takes my mind to places and times my body can't go.”

— Jeffrey Michael

“As I now move, graciously, I hope, towards the door marked Exit, it occurs to me that the only thing I ever really liked…

— Gore Vidal

I came home, the car was in the dining room. "How did you get the car in here?" "Easy, I took a left at…

— Henny Youngman

“but a book that did what books always promised to do and never actually quite did: get you out, really out, of where you…

— Lev Grossman