Bereft Quote by Erica Jong

There's still nothing like a book to really make you feel like you've disappeared into a world.

— Noah Hawley

“Books Fall Open Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where, you've never been. Hear voices not once heard before, Reach world through world,…

— David McCord

I really need so much time to really make headway on a novel that requires me to disappear from the world in a way.

— Laura van den Berg

A book is the only real escape from this fallen world. Aside from death.

— Anonymous

That heartbreaking moment when you finish an amazing book, and you are forced to return to reality.

— Grace Paley

The world exists to end up in a book.

— Stephane Mallarme

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

A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.

— George Bernard Shaw

“...a novel for me is a pretext, a way of starting up and sustaining a complicated and many layered inner exchange, a to-and-fro which…

— Sven Birkerts

“books, i think, are a different kind of time machine. instead of reminding you of a lost world, they create one for you. more…

— Neil Peart

I just love the idea that people disappear into the story for a while. You grab a book, and you want to get back…

— Bernard Beckett

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

— Salman Rushdie