Anything Quote by Octavia Butler

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

— Anonymous

Fiction offers escape but it also interrogates the world we live in, whether the past, present or future.

— Roxane Gay

“And we can read - there is always the prospect of escape, through books." "Books are not a means of 'escape', Meta! Books are…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Books are like the last parachute in the dying situation in the plane of life, helpful to soothe the sorrows and get rid of…

— Farid

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 love to travel, but when I really want to escape, I read a book.

— Jean Craighead George

I think of books as like a life raft. They save us from mundanity, they draw us to a poetic, multi-faceted world. We all…

— Andi Oliver

If you are writing any book about the end of the world, what you are really writing about is what's worth saving about it.

— Justin Cronin

Also, most people read fiction as an escape - and I wonder whether my books aren't a bit too grounded in reality to reach…

— Alex Berenson

'Parable of the Sower' is capital-I Important. Put it on the literary fiction shelf. Put it on the Holy Crap fiction shelf. Put it…

— Robin Sloan

A novel ensures that we can look before and after, take action at whatever pace we choose, read again and again, skip and go…

— William Golding

I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.

— Octavia E. Butler