Alive Quote by Cyril Connolly

“Cyril Connolly, twentieth-century writer and critic, wrote that ‘words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.’ That was how…

— Nina Sankovitch

“While thought exists, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living. Cyril Connolly (English critic and editor, 1903-1974)”

— Cyril Connolly

“Books. The more I thought about how to stop and get myself back together as one sane, whole person, the more I thought about…

— Nina Sankovitch

Everything we do is escapism, because we'll all be dead and everything we do is completely meaningless. Why brush your teeth? Why not be…

— T.C. Boyle

Words are alive. Cut them and they bleed.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Words are alive--when I've found a story that I love, I read it again and again, like playing a favorite song over and over.…

— Gary Paulsen

make no mistake about it, the detective-story is part of the literature of escape, and not of expression.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

The so-called literature of escape, with its growing popularity, is in part a revolt against the tyranny of clocks.

— Roy Bedichek

All of us use art and literature as an escape from time to time, but if it's any good, it has a healing quality…

— Katherine Paterson

When people concentrate on the idea of beauty, they are, without realizing it, confronted with the darkest thoughts that exist in this world. That,…

— Yukio Mishima

Learn to let your thoughts exist on their own without getting too involved in them.

— Russell Simmons

We shall never meet, but there is something I want you to know. My time is not the same as your time. Our times…

— Erlend Loe