Book Quote by William Joyce

Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.

— Jean Craighead George

For a long time, I thought you could remain isolated and survive, and I didn't want to change that. But over the last three…

— Daniel Woodrell

I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from 'Punch': as I have…

— A. A. Milne

Good books that often I would hate to finish because they took me into their lives and let me out of mine, for a…

— Ron McLarty

I didn't have the best time at primary school so reading a book was my way of getting away from whatever was upsetting me.

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

I like getting under the skin of the protagonists of every book I read, it makes the whole story so much more personal.

— Shweta Bachchan Nanda

I think we all like to get away from our troubles and worries with a good book.

— Linda Lael Miller

Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out…

— Dean Koontz

I always resented books that tried to teach a lesson, where the characters are too good: They don't swear, they tell their mothers everything.

— Cecily von Ziegesar

You can get away with stuff in a one-page story that you can't get away with in a book.

— Joel Stein

I get very weird and defensive about what I'm working on - I wouldn't even tell my secretary what the next page of my…

— Joan Juliet Buck

One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reader to read.

— Suzanne Collins