Escaping Quote by Andrew Neel

Occasionally, I just need to escape from my work or be reminded of the comparative bliss of my own life, so I pick up…

— David Macaulay

I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.

— Karl Ove Knausgard

Now that I no longer feel lonely, and now that my own past feels resolved in a whole new and very deep way, I…

— Kate Christensen

For me, the novel is experience illumined by imagination.

— Ellen Glasgow

It's the feeling of being lifted out of my life into another world that is the thrill of writing fiction.

— Jennifer Egan

I tend to really enjoy being swept up in fiction. I love a good story and I admire fiction authors.

— Augusten Burroughs

I love reading fiction about people who are connecting intellectually. I find that exhilarating.

— Lily King

Most everything that happens to me in any significant sense finds its way into my fiction.

— Jonathan Evison

For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived…

— Rachel Cusk

Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.

— Karen Russell

With fiction, I felt like I could bring to bear my full imagination, my entire heart, and so you feel very vulnerable. It's not…

— Peter Heller

For me, novel-writing, by its nature, contains months of feeling lost, gloomy, fatally misguided. The challenge has always been in assuring myself that by…

— Ben Dolnick