Beauty Quote by Azar Nafisi

“Curiously, the novels we escaped into led us finally to question and prod our own realities, about which we felt so helplessly speechless.”

— Azar Nafisi

“Though books were potentially harmful, novels were all the more dangerous. The path of fiction could easily mislead you into the cosmos of stories…

— Elif Shafak

Being lost in books has to be one of the best feelings it's like you can escape reality and live in your own fantasy.

— Anonymous

There are reasons people seek escape in books, and one of those reasons is that the boundary of what can happen is beyond what…

— James Patterson

I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into the fictional…

— David Guterson

Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction.

— Orson Scott Card

“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

These are all novels, all about people that never existed, the people that read them it makes them unhappy with their own lives. Makes…

— Ray Bradbury

I think novels just really show us the deepest parts of people's hearts, and you cannot walk away anymore and say, "I don't know."

— Edwidge Danticat

I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just a long…

— Margaret Atwood

While researching my first book, I discovered so many fascinating tidbits that I wanted to share them with readers to remind them that while…

— Julie Klassen

“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