Faces Quote by Amelia Gray

Writing is not primarily escape, but use.

— Henry James

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

Writing is an amazing place to hide, to go into the rabbit hole, and pull the trap door down over your head.

— Ann Patchett

I've always viewed writing as an outlet for being vulnerable and all that comes with that. You are able to let things all out.

— Bishop Briggs

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

— Rachel Joyce

Writing is like a little hole in reality that you can go through and you can get out and you can be someplace else…

— Stephen King

I'm always writing. It's kind of a curse: You never stop. But I need isolation to write. So the real meat of the material…

— Taylor Momsen

Writing in a journal is just a stall, a waiting game, a way to tell yourself that you're working when you're not, that you're…

— Robert Masello

Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.

— Peter Benchley

Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing.

— Anonymous

Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to.

— Ashwin Sanghi

Writing is a combination of being alert to your outer surroundings and alive to your inner reality.

— Julia Cameron