Language Quote by Alice Hoffman

I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read.

— Alice Walker

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

I don't read much when I'm working. When I'm finished work, I don't want a thing to do with words.

— Pauline Gedge

There's something paralyzing about being a writer that you have to escape. I don't want to think of myself as a guy who's written…

— Nicholson Baker

Writing is not primarily escape, but use.

— Henry James

I always write out of a need to read something, rather than a need to write something.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Reading is one form of escape.

— Anonymous

Read as much as you possibly can. Nothing will help you as much as reading and you'll go through a phase where you will…

— J. K. Rowling

I have to say I do read partly for escapism. Why can't I escape and learn something?

— Christopher Bollen

it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose…

— Gertrude Stein

When I started writing, I thought nobody would understand the things that I liked. Then I began getting a lot of letters from people…

— Novala Takemoto