Rebecca Wells Quotes

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

I'm absolutely removed from the world at such times...The hours go by without my knowing it. Sitting there I'm wandering in countries I can see every detail of - I'm playing a role in the story I'm reading. I actually feel I'm the characters - I live and breath with them.

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

I’d much rather pretend I’m somewhere else, and any time I open the pages of a book, that happens.

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.

A daydream is an evasion.

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

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

I daydream all the time.

I think relaxation is escaping from your everyday encounters. You can read the words on a page and be transported to somewhere else. And the more consumed you are with it, the more you're cocooned.

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.

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.

My home was in a pleasant place outside of Philadelphia. But I really lived, truly lived, somewhere else. I lived within the covers of books.

As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the clouds.

A lot of peopletell me I'm a bit dreamy, but I like the idea of that. Of being somewhere else.

Daydreaming subverts the world.

I am a bit of a daydreamer.

I was a real daydreamer at school, gazing out of the window and losing myself in imaginary worlds.

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.

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

All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I've gone off the top, into total fantasy.

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

And I guess I'm a kid at heart in that when I go for entertainment, I want to be totally transported. I want to go somewhere else; I want to encounter different things, different beings, different universes. And so I love that aspect of being able to play those things in both 'True Blood' and in 'American Horror Story.'

I daydream all the time, and I like that quality.

I am a dreamer. Seriously, I'm living on another planet.