Christopher Hampton Quotes

I read a lot of fiction.

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

Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.

I get transported when I read books.

I like to read fiction.

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

Books in general are great, but I'm a fiction lover, and I will continue to do it.

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

I love comics. All I've been doing is reading every day, sitting in the house. Because I've not been feeling too good, so I've been reading and reading.

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

I think of my novels as entertainments.

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.

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.

Don't get me wrong, I love watching episodes of my favorite shows on Hulu and reading the daily trash on PageSix, but I also embrace the opportunity to settle down with a good book and let my mind travel to another place and time.

I'll read pretty much anywhere and anytime, but for a while now, I've really enjoyed reading on flights, especially the longer hauls, when I'm unplugged from everything and can completely immerse myself in the world of a book and submit happily to its rhythms, perspectives, ideas.

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

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

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

I know I'm not creating transcendent works that will someday be taught in college. All I do is entertain. I try to entertain others by sending them into another world for a few hours. When I see my books read on the beach, the pages dabbed with suntan lotion, then I feel as if I've done my job.

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

I love fiction and read novels constantly.

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 enjoy reading books.

Holidays can become tedious without something to read.