“Books are the reality you get to choose; life is the reality you hide from inside a book.”
“I wanted to find a place to hide from all of it, where the nightmares and the rivers and reality couldn't find me. For me, that place was always inside a book.”
“If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without.”
“That heartbreaking moment when you finish an amazing book, and you are forced to return to reality.”
“Overall, books and art were a safer escape from reality than sleep.”
“The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, though you may express reality there if you wish. You are also free to write lies, or nonsense, or to tear the pages.”