“We read not to escape, but to go deeper into life.”
“When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.”
“When you read a good book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it”—”
“Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction.”
“Writing is an escape from life reading is living a different life.”
“People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.”