David Quammen Quotes

People who read on holiday always have a better time because it's total escapism, both physically and mentally.

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 like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.

When I go on vacation, I take very few clothes and a whole lot of books. It's the most soothing thing in the world. Reading 'Moby-Dick' is like being in a time machine. I almost feel as excited as the first time I read it and I always find something new.

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

I'm quiet and introverted, and I like to just be by myself a lot. I like to read and just get away and surf. I have a lot of alone time.

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.

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 like camping.

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

I love reading. I spend a huge amount of time travelling on planes and have always got a book on the go.

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

It's really fun to just get on a bike and just go and, I guess in a way, to be able to leave the tour and not be confined and all that kind of stuff.

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.

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

I don't watch teams other than Dodgers on TV and I watch the Dodgers games sparingly. I like to refresh my mind at night, so I like to read. For me, watching baseball at night, it would be like an insurance man reading actuary tables. I like to escape.

In this job, there are some simple pleasures that really help you cope. One is books, I mean, books are a great escape. Books are a way to get your mind on something else.

I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day.

I do not feel obliged in my reading. I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world, not because it's good for me.

I like to read because it's the opposite of being on the go. Reading is the perfect antidote.

To read was precisely to enter another world, which was not the reader's own, and come back refreshed, ready to bear with equanimity the injustices and frustrations of this one. Reading was balm, amusement not incitement.

When this is over...we will got to the rainforest, or a beach as white as bone. We will eat grapes from the vine, we will swim with sea turtles, we will walk miles on cobblestone streets. We will laugh and talk and confess. We will.

People love escapism and there should be a place for it.

Cassandra always hid when she read, though she never quite knew why. It was as if she couldn't shake the guilty suspicion that she was being lazy, that surrendering herself so completely to something so enjoyable must surely be wrong. But surrender she did. Let herself drop through the rabbit hole and into a tale of magic and mystery.