Sandra Brown 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.

I think of my novels as entertainments.

Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.

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.

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

Fiction, even when it's grim and hard, is fun.

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 don't like anything too heavy. Something I can read, you know, lying in bed that takes me to different world.

I like to read fiction.

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

Novels are make-believe and play for adults.

I got into writing because books and stories were always a big part of my life. I loved listening to them and then reading them, and I loved making them up.

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

Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.

I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.

I just enjoyed telling stories. I enjoyed watching films and reading and becoming someone else. I spent a lot of time on my own when I was younger; I enjoyed my own company and still do, so it was a source of escapism.

A story invites both writer and reader into a kind of superficial ease: we want to slide along, pleasingly entertained, lost in the fictional dream.

I read a lot of fiction.

A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.

It's the imagination that is involved in sci-fi, and fantasy is what draws me to it. Stories, everything.

Paranormal fiction offers authors - and readers - the chance to answer the question, 'What if?' All the different ways that question can be answered make for extremely entertaining reading.

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.

I read a lot when I'm travelling and always have a couple of books on the go.

Literature has always been the greatest fuel for my imagination.

As entertainment, fiction may offer momentary relief from the stresses of reality.