“I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I’m afraid of.”— Joss Whedon, articles.chicagotribune.com
“I fell in love with books. Some people find beauty in music, some in painting, some in landscape, but I find it in words. By beauty, I mean the feeling you have suddenly glimpsed another world, or looked into a portal that reveals a kind of magic or romance out of which the world has been constructe…”— Donald Miller, amazon.com
“I love the way music inside a car makes you feel invisible; if you plan the stereo at max volume, it’s almost like the other people can’t see into your vehicle. It tints your windows, somehow.”— Chuck Klosterman, amazon.com
“Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.”— Carol Shields, amazon.com
“You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”— John Green, amazon.com
“Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to.”— Michael Chabon, amazon.com
“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”— W. Somerset Maugham, amazon.com
“I leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own.”— Ruta Sepetys, amazon.com
“It’s a question I often ask myself: what would I do with me? And I don’t know the answer. I don’t know what I’d do, except run away.”— Alexander Masters, quotefancy.com
“Like the creatures of the forest and the sea, I love. To lose myself for a while.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you?”— Tom Wolfe, amazon.com
“I lay on the bed and lost myself in stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyways.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“We like companionship, see, but we can’t stand to be around people for very long. So we go get ourselves lost, come back for a while, then get the hell out again.”— Jon Krakauer, amazon.com
“I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com