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- I don't want to be a writer so I can write about my life. I want to be a writer to escape from it.
+ Then you shouldn't be a writer. — Candace Bushnell

Writing is simply another means for truth to escape, besides crawling out the hole it's eaten in the author's belly. — Dianne Kozdrey Bunnell

I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war. — Walter Mosley

I write to escape. I haven't managed it yet, but I'm working on it — William Meikle

Writing is like trying to escape quicksand. The harder you try the faster you sink. — Alane Adams

To strive in life; we must either read or write a story. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You feel the call. That's the important thing. Now answer it as fully as you can. Take the risk to let all that is in you, out. Escape into the open. — Elizabeth Berg

Writing is the easiest way to escape from the real world. — Anna Jean Ouellette

...That's the difference between backpackers and holiday makers. The former can't help but invite hassle whilst the latter pay to escape it. — Harry Whitewolf

A dream in the night is but a story trying to escape. — Chad B. Hanson

I'd turned to writing because it offered few escape routes or hiding places; it's harder to lie to yourself on the page than in the world. — Pico Iyer

Time spent doing whatever it is you do to escape your daily life would be better spent acquiring a life that needs no escape. — Shaun Hick

People don't read to enlighten themselves or seek to gain some valuable insight into their own psychology. People read to escape. — Dermot Davis

Writing is an outlet, but it's not an outlet of escape. People keep a journal when they want to escape. I write to rub my face in it. — Amelia Gray

Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture. — Eduardo Galeano

Yes, for all of us in the Shakespeare Squadron, writing is just that: not an escape from reality, but an attempt to change reality. — William S. Burroughs

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. — Nicole Christie

Acting and writing go together. Actors write because they love words and becoming other people - we love to escape into other characters. — Susannah York

Reading is a way to escape the real world. Writing is a way to create a new one. — Giuseppe Bianco

Writing is the only way to run away from home, without ever leaving. — Shannon L. Alder

I wanted to write literature that pushed people into their lives rather than helping people escape from them. — Harvey Pekar

Reading a good book is an escape to an alternative life, writing a good book is the closest thing to actually living that life. — Chas Scott

What compels me to write now is the same as all those years ago. It is the love of writing and storytelling, driven by a desire to escape. — Fennel Hudson

Read to escape reality . . . Write to embrace it. — Stephanie Connolly

I want to write stories that don't help you escape life, but embrace life. — Peter Hedges

Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to. — Ashwin Sanghi

I wanted to escape the unrest, to shut out the voices around me and within me, so I write. — Franz Kafka

Why wouldn't you write to escape yourself as much as you might write to express yourself? It's far more interesting to write about others. — Susan Sontag

A book acts as the getaway car when you need to escape.
Even when you're the one writing it. — Julie Wright

For me, writing is such an escape, and I felt very lucky to have this to run away to. — Rachel Joyce