Quotes About Escape

My father fled from the North, hating communism.

North Carolina has been so great because nobody asks me about work.

China is a heaven compared to North Korea.

In North Korea, when there is an alarm, it means that there is a war drill. It means that you need to run.

If I could've had the things that Americans throw away, I never would've escaped North Korea. That's how much we were desperate.

Living in China, I found out that the bright new world was not for me, not for defectors. My life in North Korea had been OK; suddenly, in China, I had to feed myself and earn money. Worst of all, North Korean defectors are hunted by the government.

Many Chinese criticize me not only on Baidu but on Facebook. Some say, do you think Chinese authorities were stupid enough not to realize you were a North Korean defector? If they read my book, they'd understand. I did my best to escape. I think it's all a miracle. It's not because Chinese policemen were stupid enough to believe my fake story.

Maybe it's because I was too much reality, but I'm not interested in seeing too much reality anymore. I'd rather watch a Dean Martin concert and let the world go by.

I like driving. A lot. I think that's something I just enjoy the most. I can, at a moment's notice, drive across the country if, you know, I had to.

I noticed that in 'The Revenant,' as much as it is a good story of revenge and endurance, there are times that you get to escape with a story like that.

What I like about writing novels is that I'm in my own world for nine months.

I was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels.

Novels are the means by which we can escape the moment we are imprisoned in, but at the same time, the roots of a novel are in the world in which it is written. We write, and we read, to understand the world we live in.

I hole up now and then and do nothing for days but read.

My folks have a cottage north of Kingston, which is literally in the middle of nowhere, and I can be there very happily for like a week.

I grew up in the countryside in the middle of nowhere in England and got out as soon as I could!

I just love being in the middle of nowhere.

People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?

Many years ago, when I lived in the mini-Siberia they call East Anglia, I was awakened in the early hours by the sound of a pantechnicon being loaded. Peeping through the curtains, I observed the grocer doing a runner with all his chattels and his family.

Occasionally a roast master needs to get out of Dodge.

It is impossible to think of an ideal human life except as an alternation of individual and social life, as equally a belonging and an escape.

Since you got here by not thinking, it seems reasonable to expect that, in order to get out, you must start thinking.

You see. . . it's really quite strenuous doing nothing all day, so once a week we take a holiday and go nowhere, which was just where we were going when you came along. Would you care to join us?

You see," continued another in a more conciliatory tone, "it's really quite strenuous doing nothing all day, so once a week we take a holiday and go nowhere, which was just where we were going when you came along.