"This is why I read novels: so I……" — Carol Shields

"This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue."

— Carol Shields

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18 Quotes by Carol Shields

Carol Shields has 18 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
It's the arrangement of events which makes the stories. It's throwing away, compressing, underlining. Hindsight can give structure to anything,…
Eventually, everything gets stuck between a pair of parentheses or buried in the bottom of a trunk.
nothing she did or said was quite what she meant but still her life could be called a monument shaped…
In one day I had altered my life; my life, therefore, was alterable. This simple axiom did not call out…
Happiness is the lucky pane of glass you carry in your head. It takes all your cunning just to hang…
Our friendship is made up of these brief frenzied exchanges, but the quality of our conversation, for all its feverish…
So this is where the years of maturity deliver us - to this needy, selfish, unwieldy wish to be somebody…
Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground.
Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts…
Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been…
Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.

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More Escape Quotes

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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death,… — Aristotle
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I… — Paul Auster
The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason… — Billie Joe Armstrong
Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact… — Antonin Artaud
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in… — Marcus Aurelius
Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens,… — Diane Ackerman
In '73 I photographed the cannibals in New Guinea. They treated me OK but they didn't make you feel relaxed...… — David Bailey
When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. — Julian Barnes
We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay. — Lynda Barry
There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. — Roland Barthes
Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient. — Henry Ward Beecher

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