Philip K. Dick Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• So books are real to me, too; they link me not just with other minds but with the vision of other minds, what those minds understand and see. I see their worlds as well as I see my own.

  Philip K. Dick

  Real, Book, Mind

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The Transmigration of Timothy Archer”, p.141, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• I am a reader. I am a writer. People assume I do these things to escape. You couldn't be more right. I'm escaping a world I don't like. A world I have no control in. In this world, I am nothing. I am a color, a height, a weight, a number. But in the world of books and writing, I am amazing. I am powerful. I am different. People are better. Worlds are endless. Change is possible. Life is manageable.

  Philip K. Dick

  Powerful, Book, Writing

• You mean old books?" "Stories written before space travel but about space travel." "How could there have been stories about space travel before --" "The writers," Pris said, "made it up.

  Philip K. Dick

  Book, Mean, Space

  Philip K. Dick (2017). “Blade Runner”, p.112, Hachette UK

• I think that, like in my writing, reality is always a soap bubble, Silly Putty thing anyway. In the universe people are in, people put their hands through the walls, and it turns out they're living in another century entirely. I often have the feeling — and it does show up in my books — that this is all just a stage.

  Philip K. Dick

  Wall, Silly, Book

  Science Fiction Review, August 1976.

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin