Margaret Oliphant Quotes

I want to be a writer you can always depend on for a good read during your vacation, during your flight, during a time in your life when you want to forget the world around you.

For me, reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt.

I absolutely love reading; it is a fantastic way of unwinding.

Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.

Whenever I have a few hours to dive into a book, I am happy.

As long as I have books and DVDs, I don't miss much.

Books are wonderful. They are like people, except they mind less when you put them down and wander off to eat something.

Reading takes me to a different place than my everyday life. I usually get fully involved in what I'm reading about, so it's a great escape.

I think we all like to get away from our troubles and worries with a good book.

Music can be a source of escapism.

Movies are about escape.

When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better than turning off and getting lost.

Reading is my greatest luxury.

I think escapism is really important.

I like to go to the movies or read.

I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

I don't have the time to curl up on my couch with a good book.

Look, I get it; you come home, you work hard, and you turn on your TV... You kind of want to escape a little bit and be taken away by something. Our show required you to pay attention, and if that's not what you wanted to do, then it wasn't going to be for you, and that's OK.

I love watching movies. It breaks up the monotony of the road and momentarily takes you somewhere else.

Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films! - but it's nice to have an excuse to just sit and read for a whole day.

Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

What did people do prior to cell phones? Read a book? If I'm stuck in a car, and I don't have my phone, I'm like, 'What am I doing?' Car rides used to be one of my favorite things.

I'm really into the idea of telling stories. Everyone needs stories. Everyone needs to escape every once in a while.