Carly Rae Jepsen Quotes

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

Reading is my greatest luxury.

I think one reason people play golf is it allows them to obsess about something other than the daily crap. It takes your mind off that.

For me, if I didn't have reading I'd go absolutely crazy. It really helps me to unplug from the whole world, and keep my sanity, and be able to fill my time with something other than technology.

Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.

Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.

I need distractions. Good distractions, not bad ones. A good distraction for me is a great play.

Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another.

What happens is, when I perform, I'm somewhere else. I go back in time and get in touch with who I really am. I forget my troubles, my worries.

In quiet moments, I love to read.

A couple of seats at a good picture house cost comparatively little but give a generous return in the shape of freshened minds and freedom from the worries that even the best regulated homes cannot always avoid.

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places.

I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried.

When I sit and read my book and I'm all cosy, it takes me to another place.

Reading was my escape growing up in Ohio. Both of my parents lost their jobs when I was a teen, and it was hard. But I always had my books. Reading gave me a way of living different lives.

Books have literally powered most of my life. Whether as a stress relief when doing hard things or as vacation fodder, they are a constant and important part of my life.

I loved to read books in the free world, and there was a lot of time to sit around and do nothing in prison. When you read, it opens up your mind; it helped us take our minds away from where we were.

I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.

I like a lot of things about yoga - its an intro to good music; with each good teacher you study with, you learn a lot about them personally; it's not just about specific technique or poses. I also like Shavasana - not too many exercise routines let you nap at the end of them. You don't see nap pods in CrossFit gyms.

We all have an escape. Mine was theater.

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

Music can be a source of escapism.

She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.