“And we can read - there is always the prospect of escape, through books.""Books are not a means of 'escape', Meta! Books are a means of knowledge, and of learning how to cope with the future.”

“Books. The more I thought about how to stop and get myself back together as one sane, whole person, the more I thought about books. I thought about escape. Not running to escape but reading to escape. Cyril Connolly, twentieth-century writer and critic, wrote that “words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.” That was how I wanted to use books: as an escape back to life. I wanted to engulf myself in books and come up whole again.”

“People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.”

“I was always able to lose myself in reading. Books were a necessary escape I always gladly jumped into headfirst.”

“Everyone in the world should read this book... We should read it to learn about the world and what it means to be human. ”

“A book can be an escape from the house.”