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For me, reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt. -- Geri Halliwell
Reading serves as a good escape when you're in the middle of doing crazy things. -- Carly Rae Jepsen
What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading. -- Alice James
I spend my life writing fiction, so reading fiction isn't much of an escape. That's not always true, but I don't read much contemporary fiction. -- Alan Furst
Girls are the best readers in the world. Reading is really a way of kind of escaping so deeply into yourself and pursuing your own thoughts within the construct of a story. -- Caitlin Flanagan
I never understood the concept of a fluffy summer read. For me, summer reading means beaches, long train rides and layovers in foreign airports. All of which call for escaping into really long books. -- Maria Semple
Some people become passionate readers and fans of science fiction during childhood or adolescence. I picked up on SF somewhat later than that; my escape reading of choice during my youth was historical novels, and one of my favorite writers was Mary Renault. -- Pamela Sargent
Reading was my hobby, my sport and my activity of choice. It was the prime pleasure of my days, an unfailing escape from whatever realities were distressing me, and the only source of pride I knew, other vanities lying beyond my grasp. I couldn't do anything else well, but I could do words. -- Cynthia Voigt
I wanted to escape Small Town U.S.A. To dismiss the boundaries, to explore. My life experience came from watching movies, TV, and reading books and magazines. When your culture comes from watching TV everyday, you're bombarded with images of things that seem cool, places that seem interesting, people who have jobs and careers and opportunities. -- Trent Reznor
Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape. -- Nora Ephron
Reading, not just an escape, but an exercise in living... -- Taylor Caldwell
Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another. -- Daniel Handler
Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life. -- Karin Slaughter
I spent my entire time reading books and going to the cinema, just to escape. -- Michael Caine
What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading. -- Alice James
Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction. -- Orson Scott Card
Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape -- I didn't read to learn, I was reading to read. -- Christian Bauman
I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape. After you grow up, you should start reading for other purposes -- M. John Harrison
Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out the side door). -- William Maxwell
Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out the side door)." -- William Maxwell

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