Quotes About Escape

I just want people to get lost in the story and at the end kind of sag and say, 'That was fun.' It's hardly my desire for them to sit and think, 'What a great literary image.'

I've been blessed for 17 years to have a job where I make people forget their problems for a little while.

Do you want to live life, or do you want to escape life?

Acting is kind of an escape. You get to live life as someone else, and when you're living this life as someone else, you don't really have time to think about your own life.

I don't guess anybody likes the idea of being locked up.

When I'm on Faro, I'm never lonely.

Becoming an actor let me escape the me that I had in my heart, which was I'm a loser.

Sometimes I'll lock myself in a room and dance. I'll turn music on as loud as possible and just get weird!

Books in general are great, but I'm a fiction lover, and I will continue to do it.

If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody.

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

Reading is my greatest luxury.

Books are time machines, transporting us out of our own lives into other times and other places.

When I arrived in Madrid I felt that it was a dream that I didn't want to escape from.

When I get lost in a book, it's just, like, magical!

Of course I loved book more than people.

Of course you hate getting angry!" she retorted. "You don't like anything unpleasant, do you? You're a slitherer-outer, that's what you are! You slither away from anything you don't like!

Why did you pretend to run away? To deceive the Witch?" "Not likely!" Howl yelled. "I'm a coward. Only way I can do something this frightening is to tell myself I'm not doing it!

But I want to read a book ! Charmain protested.

You don't like anything unpleasant, do you? You're a slitherer-outer, that's what you are! You slither away from anything you don't like!

would escape to his own private planet, Ro, where an imaginary astronomer friend, Zi, had finally succeeded in building a machine to convert radiant sunlight into moral strength. Using it to waft peace throughout the universe, Zi

When friends couldn't be found, the books were always waiting with something new to tell. Life that was getting too much the same could be shaken up in a few minutes by the pictures in a book of some ancient temple newly discovered deep in a rain-forest, a fuzzy photo of Uranus with it's up-and-down rings, or a prismed picture taken through the faceted eye of a bee. -Nita Callahan- -So You Want To Be A Wizard-

When friends couldn't be found, the books were always waiting with something new to tell. Life that was getting too much the same could be shaken up in a few minutes by the pictures in a book of some ancient temple newly discovered deep in a rain-forest, a fuzzy photo of Uranus with it's up-and-down rings, or a prismed picture taken through the faceted eye of a bee.

For at eight o'clock the world came to an end. It was reading time. The hours between eight in the evening and one or two in the morning have always been my magic hours. Against the blue candlewick bedspread the white pages of my open book, illuminated by a circle of lamplight, were the gateway to another world.