“ Reading is important. It’s not primarily escapism (though it can be, and there’s nothing wrong with some of that in good measure) and it’s not primarily a way of passing the time. Reading is important… Robert Wringham
“ Our ability to detect and measure the passage of time is burdensome. The conception and sensation of time bears down upon all of us. It weighs us down; it compresses our souls. There is a variety of w… Kilroy J. Oldster
“ We view art in order to escape our own skins, to get outside of the commotion inside our skulls. Kilroy J. Oldster
“ His eyeless skull took in the line of costumes, the waxy debris of the makeup table. His empty nostrils snuffed up the mixed smells of mothballs, grease, and sweat. There was something here, he though… Terry Pratchett
“ Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop of water reflected the landscape. And yet ... and y Terry Pratchett
“ A wave of saudade swept over me as I realized home never existed at all. The concept of home felt far from my reach, and I felt sick with longing. M.B. Dallocchio
“ Every unpleasant worldly experience in life exposes our sensitive nervous systems to painful phenomena. Despite all the beer commercial advertisement slogans urging us to live with gusto, life is unav… Kilroy J. Oldster
“ Existential anguish derives from the human freedom to think and act, experience love for life, and fear death. We must decide whether we wish to embrace all experience and encounters in life or seek e… Kilroy J. Oldster
“ So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove them away before someone can get it back. Wally Lamb
“ For I need not remind such an audience as this that the neat sorting out of books into age-groups, so dear to publishers, has only a very sketchy relation with the habits of any real readers. Those of… C.S. Lewis
“ Dr. Manning said he'd thought at first it might be sleeping sickness, or even narcolepsy, whatever that was, but - no, Pete was healthy enough physically. Manoel growled that the boy was bone-lazy, sp… Henry Kuttner
“ There has always been, for me, this other world, this second world to fall back on--a more reliable world in so far as it does not hide that its premise is illusion. Graham Swift
“ I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time. It is the world outside that box that gives m… Rabih Alameddine
“ Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported into other worlds entirely? Laura Miller
“ I think that pretty much every form of fiction (I’d include fantasy, obviously) can actually be a real escape from places where you feel bad, and from bad places. It can be a safe place you go, like g… Neil Gaiman
“ An escape can become escapism before we even know it. Books are wonderful things, but you can't live in someone else's story. You have to live your own story. Jennifer Donnelly
“ Comfort and security are all well and good, but not at the cost of liberty, love and lustiness. The Bohemian knows that money, property and status have little to do with the content of one’s character… Robert Wringham
