Quotes on “escape”

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

I mean, most people want to escape. Get out of their heads. Out of their lives. Stories are the easiest way to do that.

It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.

I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough for that

Fiction should be a place of lollipops and escape. Real life is depressing enough--I, for one, don't want to read about make believe misery, too.

If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.

Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie.

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

I spent the rest of the day in someone else's story. The rare moments that I put the book down, my own pain returned in burning stabs.