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The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer. — John Steinbeck

Reality Hunger is more than thought-provoking; it's one of the most beautiful books I've read in a long time. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Poetry is nothing if it exists only in books. One has to find it in one's own life. — Marty Rubin

The beauty of fantasy is that it allows the protagonist to pass through fear to come to know this different reality and to find a place in it. — Kate Milford

Overall, books and art were a safer escape from reality than sleep. — Lisa Cach

I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books. — Jean Rostand

Every time you think of escaping mentally or physically, grab the book that lies inches away from your heart. — Muna Adnan Naqi

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life. — Camille Paglia

Well, my books - I think one of the hallmarks of my thrillers is that they're based in reality. — Brad Thor

I'm attracted to those tragic, brooding boys in the novels, and I should learn to separate reality from fiction. — Jo Raven

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures. — Jessamyn West

The real world. The very notion is absurd. Worlds and everything in them are made real by the stories that inhabit them. — Jonathan Auxier

I think people need hope when times are tough. I think they also need escape and adventure and fantasy. Books are like cheap mini vacations. — Michelle M. Pillow

Everyone should read at least 10 books in their lifetime - it helps your mind, develops your imagination, and can help you escape your reality. — Megan Wilson

That was always my fear, that perhaps books would lead me astray, teaching me about a life that didn't match reality. — Stefanos Livos

When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life. — Joyce Carol Oates

Life is like a jigsaw puzzle; Not a "Box of chocolate" You have to put the pieces together to get the 'real' picture. — Andrea L'Artiste

There are so many books left to read. For that reason alone it is worth going on living. Books make me happy, the help me escape from reality. — Felix J. Palma

Because reality has no authority there. My imagination controls everything. — Samantha Young

That's the thing with reality, he said, you can't repeat it to order, you can't correct it. Perhaps we should read more books. — Peter Stamm

Books, ingeniously coupled with music and alcohol, enabled the Irish to transcend reality. — Joe Queenan

The reality is that people reach for a Bible when they're feeling lost. But if they hadn't shelved it, maybe they wouldn't have gotten lost. — Crystal Woods

Innocence is the beginning of ignorance. Experience is the end of stupidity. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Books help me create a better reality. — Daniel Vlcek

A book is a place where my reality, escapism, hope, despair, love and death lie. — Nikita Dudani

A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books. — Francois Mitterrand

The Poets say you can live on love alone, but if that were true their books would be free. — Betsy Talbot

[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination. — Jeanette Winterson

Places of the imagination are visited in books. Seen in reality they may be hard to recognize; they are disappointing, they might even seem fake. — Elena Ferrante

Look, I like to fantasize that there's more to reality than what we have here, and that's why, from a young age, I just loved Philip K. Dick's books. — Don Coscarelli

Fantasy is a reaction to the constraints of reality. — Stewart Stafford

Some books mirror reality while others are entirely fantasy. My favorite are those that manage to weave both into a world. — Richelle E. Goodrich

If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a bit of a disappointment. — Joe Queenan

All governments, Books, customs, buildings, railways, ships, and all the stark realities that men have made, Are but imagination's utterances. — Henry Abbey

Books are the best means - private, discreet, reliable - of overcoming reality. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Books are the reality you get to choose; life is the reality you hide from inside a book. — A.M. Hudson

Non-fiction is to theory as fiction is to experience. — Joyce Rachelle

No, Ben. What I'm asking is: Are you the vehicle, and Georgie rides around in you? That is why Ben's the driver, right? — Jonathan Harnisch

My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else's books. — Alan Furst

We love books because they are the greatest escape. That is because our own minds eye is the purest form of virtual reality. — M.R. Mathias

We go for books and movies to escape the sad reality. — Jhing Bautista

Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life. — Karin Slaughter

If fiction and fantasy books are escapism, then let an author write them so as to better equip the reader to face reality by the end. — Brett Armstrong

Remembering often is rehearsing what you want reality to be. — Jonah Books

Books had always been a comfort to me, an escape from reality when reality got to be too real. — Julie Fisher

A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines. — Bill Walsh

All these things Alanna knew from her father's books and maps, but the reality took her breath away as a paragraph written in a book never could. — Tamora Pierce

Reading is my escape when reality sucks — Wency June Z. Libot

Suddenly, it seems obvious to me: Only fantasy books can make sense of the skewed reality in which I live. — David B.

I think that's just a story."
"But, Jace," she said. "All stories are true. — Cassandra Clare

Some books make us dream, others bring us face to face with reality, but what matters most to the author is the honesty with which a book is written. — Paulo Coelho

Timing is always off. Someone is always late, always lost, always looking back to the start of a reality that they didn't want to begin with. — Leigh Hershkovich

In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is very high; in reality, very low. — Aldous Huxley

I think a lot of people have an idea of virtual reality from science fiction, books and movies that have been out over the last couple of decades. — Brendan Iribe

After I read a good book, I have a hard time coping with reality. — Unknown

People are living books. The real library of life is community. — Bryant McGill

Funny thing- Morgenstern's folk's were named Max and Valerie and his father was a doctor. — William Goldman

I would love to have written Roger Zelazny's first five books of 'Amber.' What a great idea he had about the shadings of reality! — Carol Berg

Books inspire me to create a better reality. — Daniel Vlcek

We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality. — Ayn Rand

DeYtH Banger is a character, who is famous because of me, who is created by me and who lives by me... — Deyth Banger

Sometimes I forget myself in a book. And when i have to stop reading it takes me a minute to remember where I am. Or who I am. — Anonymous

I understand loud and clearly, with my sound mind — Andrea L'Artiste