Quotes and sayings about tag  escape

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.

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• Books

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

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• Books

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.

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• Books

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.

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• Writing

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

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• Love

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.

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• Life

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.

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• Writing

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

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• Life

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.

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• Success

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

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• Books

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

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• Life

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

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• Inspirational