Do not read books to escape reality. Read them to understand the reality you live in.
– Eric Freh
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- Read. Read. Read. Just don’t read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style. – RL Stine
- And tell them all about the books you’ve read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That’s an order. You can never read too many books. – PB Kerr
- Writers: read books. Read good books. Read bad books. Learn what does and does not work. – Kira Hawke
- All this time I thought you were reading to escape the world, but now I know, you didn’t read to escape it; you read to discover it. – Brittainy C Cherry
- She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe ether, to sink in and die. – Annie Dillard
- An extrovert looks at a stack of books and sees a stack of papers, while an introvert looks at the same stack and sees a soothing source of escape. – Eric Samuel Timm
- And read-¦ read all the time-¦ read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life. – David McCullough Jr
- Read books when you are free, read minds when you are’nt….but do read… – Rabindranath Tagore
- It was, in many ways, her dream bookshop. Not least because all the books had already been read.Books that had already been read were the best. – Katarina Bivald
- For peace read books, for success read books and take actions. – Amit Kalantri
- To whom do books belong? The books we read and the books we write are both ours and not ours. They’re also theirs. – Pamela Paul
- I do, I’m afraid, understand books far more readily than I understand people. Books are so easy to get along with. – Katherine Rundell
- Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape — I didn’t read to learn, I was reading to read. – Christian Bauman
- People don’t read to enlighten themselves or seek to gain some valuable insight into their own psychology. People read to escape. – Dermot Davis
- People read books to escape the uncertainties of life. – Barbara Kingsolver
- I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced. – Lawrence Durrell
- We love books because they are the greatest escape. That is because our own minds eye is the purest form of virtual reality. – MR Mathias
- The one thing that we need to escape is our minds, but our minds are the one thing that we cannot escape from. – Anonymous
- if the count of monte cristo could escape the chateau d’if, william smithback could escape from river oaks – Douglas Preston
- To survive was to escape fate. But if you escape your fate, whose life do you then step into? – Anne Michaels
- You’re trying to escape from your difficulties, and there never is any escape from difficulties, never. They have to be faced and fought. – Enid Blyton
- Understand, it’s never been easy to live, when we’re trying to escape ourselves. – Kelli Russell Agodon
- We live and breathe words…but writing them down makes you escape into new worlds. Only those who write would understand. – April Mae Monterrosa
- We feel free when we escape – even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire. – Eric Hoffer
- You can read merely to pass the time, or you can read with an overt urgency, but eventually you will read against the clock. – Harold Bloom
- I want to read so I can read the Koran read the signs in the street know the number of the bus I’m supposed to take when I one day leave this house. – Eve Ensler
- He read while he walked. He read while he ate. The other librarians suspected he somehow read while he slept, or perhaps didn’t sleep at all. – Laini Taylor
- Read. Read until your eyes are sore. Then read some more. – Lisa Bloom
- Read, re-read! Every word you read is a food for thy soul! – Lailah Gifty Akita
- The only thing better than a well-read book is a well-read book only read by yourself. – SA Tawks
- We read to know we’re not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone. – Gabrielle Zevin
- Lincoln was less well-read than many a professor or journalist, but what he read, he read deeply. – Richard Brookhiser
- [I] read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them. – Simon Van Booy
- Without a doubt,I must read,all the booksI’ve read about.See the artworkshung on hooks,that I have only,seen in books. – Lang Leav
- If you only read books, how will you read the scripture inside you? – Tapan Ghosh
- Books were a dependable pleasure. I read more then than I ever was able to read again until now when I am too old to work much and am mostly alone. – Wendell Berry
- Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. – Henry David Thoreau
- The books I read when I was twenty completely changed when I read them when I was sixty. – Sarah Addison Allen
- I don’t read books to finish them, I read to consume them. – TemitOpe Ibrahim
- you may always find good books to read but the best and the ultimate book to read is the Holy Bible – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah