Sarah Rees Brennan Quotes

I spent my entire time reading books and going to the cinema, just to escape.

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 really, really wanted to lose awareness of the here and now. The best way for me to do that was bury myself in a book.

Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.

Half the time I pick up a book, that's what I'm trying to get.

Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit, and I suppose that this is neither innocent or praiseworthy. Of that lamentable company am I. Conversation after a time bores me, games tire me and my own thoughts, which we are told are the unfailing resource of a sensible man, have a tendency to run dry. Then I fly to my book as the opium-smoker to his pipe.

I lay on the bed and lost myself in stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyways.

Books were my pass to personal freedom.

Even though I like looking good - don't get me wrong - but if I don't want to, I don't have to.

If I want to put my tits on my back, it's nobody's business but my own.

I never want to be a role model.

Let's let people live their lives and do it the way they want to do it.

Reader's Bill of Rights 1. The right to not read 2. The right to skip pages 3. The right to not finish 4. The right to reread 5. The right to read anything 6. The right to escapism 7. The right to read anywhere 8. The right to browse 9. The right to read out loud 10. The right to not defend your tastes

I happen to think that a book is of extraordinary value if it gives the reader nothing more than a smile or two. It's perfectly okay to take a book, read it, have a good time, giggle and laugh - and turn off the TV. I love that.

I want to live life on my own terms.

If I want to dress myself a certain way, I don't want to have to rely on someone else to do it for me.

What I like about being alone is being able to do whatever you want and it's for yourself.

I'd go somewhere where no one spoke. I would take a stack of books up to my hips, and I'd read nonstop. And I'd be reading naked.

You see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live.

Man belongs wherever he wants to go - and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.

I'm single right now and I've chosen to be single because I don't have the time to get to know anybody. So it's okay not to have sex, it's okay to get to know people. I'm celibate, celibacy's fine.

I don't feel pressure, because I do what I want to do. I don't feel pressure at all. I've never done any movies because I thought this was what somebody wanted me to do. I'm a bit more, for lack of a better word, selfish than that. But like I say in the movie, you do what you have to do so that you can do what you want to do.

No one is going to tell a movie star to smoke or not smoke because they can do whatever they want.

I don't want no better book than what your face is.

Nobody can make anybody be someone he or she doesn't want to be.