Quote by E.L. James Download Open image ““I craved the escape that fiction provided”” — E.L. James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I think it’s undignified to read for the purposes of escape…. If you read for escape you will never try to change your life,… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
“She hated to hear the word "escape" used about fiction. She might have argued, not just playfully, that it was real life that was… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Fiction offers escape but it also interrogates the world we live in, whether the past, present or future. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“There is no other escape like a book. Reading expands your mind and opens your world to a myriad of possibilities.” — Fran Veal Copy Share Image
“As a kind of castaway myself, I was happy to escape into the fictional world of someone else's trouble.” — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“Before I knew escape, life was something to be endured, passively. Now I hunger for it.” — Kristin Halbrook Copy Share Image
“I didn’t read to escape. I didn’t even read to be entertained. It was more elemental, more essential than that. I read because imagination… — Katie Ray Copy Share Image
“Sometimes fiction is a way of coping with the poison of the world in a way that lets us survive it.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Don’t,” he murmurs, then kisses me lightly. “Why don’t you like to be touched?” I whisper, staring up into soft gray eyes. “Because I’m… — E.L. James Copy Share Image
“If he touches me, I will succumb. I know the power he wields over me and my traitorous body. I know.” — E.L. James Copy Share Image
“I’ve been so busy I haven’t managed to contact her since this morning, but she’s been hovering at the edge of my consciousness all… — E.L. James Copy Share Image
“Let me ask you something first. Do you want a regular vanilla relationship with no kinky fu*kery at all?” — E.L. James Copy Share Image
“And the baby?" The words are anguished, breathless. "The baby's fine, Mr. Grey." "Oh, thank God." The words are litany... a prayer, "Oh, thank… — E.L. James Copy Share Image
“No. No!” he says. “I . . .” He looks wildly around the room. For inspiration? For divine intervention? I don’t know. “You can’t… — E.L. James Copy Share Image
“Because we're getting to know each other, and you're stubborn and cantankerous and moody and difficult.” — E.L. James Copy Share Image
