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Escape Quotes

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"So I draw because I feel like it might be my only real chance to escape the reservation."
Sherman Alexie
"So I draw because I feel like it might be my only real chance to escape the reservation."
Sherman Alexie, American Writer
Escape, Art, Freedom, Expression
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"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
"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
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"To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape."
John Fowles
"To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape."
John Fowles, English Novelist
Escape, Poetry, Despair, Contradiction
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"Time to make herself scarce because, hell, she didn't want to pass that thunderhead on her way out."
Katherine McIntyre
"Time to make herself scarce because, hell, she didn't want to pass that thunderhead on her way out."
Katherine McIntyre, American Novelist
Escape, Emotion, Awareness, Time
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"There must be some kind of way out of here,' said the joker to the thief..."
Bob Dylan
"There must be some kind of way out of here,' said the joker to the thief..."
Bob Dylan, American Musician
Escape, Confusion, Dialogue, Irony
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"Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth."
Janet Evanovich
"Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth."
Janet Evanovich, American Novelist
Escape, Romance, Joy, Reading
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"I'm wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart: but really with it, and in it."
Emily Bronte
"I'm wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart: but really with it, and in it."
Emily Bronte, English Novelist
Escape, Heaven, Longing, Emotion
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"Outside, across the putrid moat and under the dark mute trees, I would often lie and dream for hours about what I read in the books; and would longingly picture myself amidst gay crowds in the sunny world beyond the endless forests."
H. P. Lovecraft
"Outside, across the putrid moat and under the dark mute trees, I would often lie and dream for hours about what I read in the books; and would longingly picture myself amidst gay crowds in the sunny world beyond the endless forests."
H. P. Lovecraft, American Novelist
Escape, Books, Imagination, Longing
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