“Writing stories is my way of scratching that itch: my escape from the claustrophobia of individuality. It lets me, at least for a while, live more than one life, walk more than one path. Reading, of course, can do the same.”

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”

“I Love Books.I love that moment when you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, into a story that's way more interesting than yours will ever be.”

“Reading was not an escape for her, any more than it is for me. It was an aspect of direct experience. She distinguished, of course, between the fictional world and the real one, in which she had to prepare dinners and so on. Still, for us, the fictional world was an extension of the real, and in no way a substitute for it, or refuge from it. Any more than sleeping is a substitute for waking." (Jincy Willett)”

“A person who reads lives more than one life, but that means that they die more than once as well.”

“You will learn more about writing from one hour of reading than you will in six hours of writing.”