"I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Nights. Slowly, like a movie fadeout, the real world evaporates. I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favourite feeling in the world."

Escape, Reading, Story, Solitude

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"I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Nights. Slowly, like a movie fadeout, the real world evaporates. I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favourite feeling in the world."

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"We got there without being spotted. I pulled her in, then shut the door, pressing my back to it and exhaling like an epileptic pilot who'd just landed a cargo plane full of dynamite."

Brandon Sanderson, American Author

Escape, Secrecy, Fear, Conflict

"To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking."

Alcaeus, Greek Poet

Escape, Drinking, Folly, Grief, Melancholy

"I came to this city to escape."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

Escape, City, Isolation, Choice

"The only recourse for an escape artist from world affairs is to explore their inner sanctum where hopes, dreams, insecurities, and despair collide."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

Escape, World, Soul, Dream

"Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe. If you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become obvious yourself."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Escape, Alcohol, Life, Reality

"Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls."

Anais Nin, American Author

Escape, Reality, Life, Ecstasy

"Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Escape, Liquor, Pain, Life

"Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book."

David Mitchell, British Novelist

Escape, Books, Reading, Imagination

"Annabeth looked at me. " We have to get out of here." " You think I want to be in the girls' restroom?" " I mean the ship, Percy! We have to get off the ship." " Smells bad," Tyson agreed. " And dogs eat all the eggs. Annabeth is right. We must leave the restroom and the ship."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Escape, Truth, Life, Power, Happiness

"My reality isn't as gracious as it use to be, so I create things that are."

Nikki Rowe, American Writer

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Explore more quotes by Haruki Murakami

"It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them."

Writing

"It was as if my whole life revolved around trying to judge the appropriate point in a conversation to say goodbye."

Social

"One other thing I learned from working in a company was that the majority of people in the world have no problem following orders. They're actually happy to be told what to do. They might complain, but that's not how they really feel. They just grumble out of habit. If you told them to think for themselves, and make their own decisions and take responsibility for them, they'd be clueless."

Responsibility

"I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind."

Fear

"There are three ways you can get along with a girl: one, shut up and listen to what she has to say; two, tell her you like what she's wearing; and three, treat her to really good food...If you do all that and still don't get the results you want, better give up."

Relationship

"He decided not to ask for details. Better to avoid exposing his ignorance even further."

Technology

"There are symbolic dreams-dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are symbolic realities-realities that symbolize a dream."

Philosophy

"Me, I've seen 45 years, and I've only figured out one thing. That's this: if a person would just make the effort, there's something to be learned from everything. From even the most ordinary, commonplace things, there's always something you can learn. I read somewhere that they said there's even different philosophies in razors. Fact is, if it weren't for that, nobody'd survive."

Wisdom

"Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories."

Identity

"A rubber plant is just about the ideal family."

Family