“All books are escapism. They are life with the boring bits cut out.”
“Good fiction is life with all the boring bits taken out, not with all the hardship taken out.”
“What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.”
“You cannot escape from life. Life is not a book. You can't just set it down on the coffee table and walk away from it when it gets boring or you get tired.”
“Only boring people get bored. Life may be tedius, but not if you brought a book.”
“An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.”