Fiction Quote by 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

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

— Anonymous

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

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

— Roxane Gay

“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

No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are…

— Avi Arad

I’m a reader who uses fiction as a way of worrying about life.

— Lorin Stein

Now that I no longer feel lonely, and now that my own past feels resolved in a whole new and very deep way, I…

— Kate Christensen

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

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

The novels were an escape from reality in the sense that we could marvel at their beauty and perfection. Curiously, the novels we escaped…

— Azar Nafisi

“Fiction should be a place of lollipops and escape. Real life is depressing enough--I, for one, don't want to read about make believe misery,…

— Nicole Christie