Gustave Flaubert Quotes

When I'm reading, wherever I am, I'm always somewhere else.

When I'm absorbed in a work of fiction, time and place melts away, as though I've drifted away from my usual reality and been absorbed into another.

When I read, I want to be fully transported to another place. I want to feel things, smell things.

There are days where I lose track of time, of place, of everything else, because I've been transported to another universe.

I live in my imagination, so sometimes movies help me get lost. I feel like I'm in it.

The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

Comics is all about making it believable and helping people to get completely lost in a fictional world.

I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and that's why I always read books, and I could go to Mars or Middle Earth or the Hyborian age.

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.

Every book that you pick up takes you a step away from your real world, but if you read a book about magic, it takes you an extra two steps.

I know that when I watch TV, I want to be transformed and transported, not just by the characters that I grow to love over the hours and seasons of watching but also the world that it plants me into.

The minute I forget to balance reality with the fantasy, I'm going back to Virginia.

Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.

A daydream is an evasion.

I think I spend most of my time not living in reality, actually.

I always loved having the chance to disappear in a story. I always was kind of obsessed with that.

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.

There's a sense of fiction in every video game. It creates a world for itself that you want to obey.

I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it.

It's funny, because I don't have a very addictive personality in any way except for things like stories or books or movies or TV. I just get, like, completely enamored and lost in that world, especially when one really hits the right way. Like, I just can't do anything else.

I love going to movies. It's just big, it takes you away, you can escape into it.

Books are time machines, transporting us out of our own lives into other times and other places.

I read Tolkien when I was 11. I read 'The Hobbit' and the trilogy on a road trip with my family. I identified with the nonhumans in those books, and it never occurred to me why that was.

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