Blue Quote by Henry James

Her writing was her only escape, her only means of survival. It was a respite from a cruel world, despite seemingly comfortable surroundings.

— Danielle Steel

“She read modern fiction too. Always fiction. She hated to hear the word 'escape' used about fiction. She might have argued, not just playfully,…

— Alice Munro

“The temptation to just crawl up onto the bank and lie there in a huddled mass of misery was almost overwhelming, but some part…

— Josie Litton

...she needed to confirm its presence. Like the keeper of the lighthouse and the prisoner, she regarded it as a mooring, a checkpoint, some…

— Toni Morrison

A gritty grain of truth lay at the heart of most legends, she had told me, and the slow accretion of fiction hardened in…

— Caroline Llewellyn

Reading was not an escape for her, any more than it is for me. It was an aspect of direct experience. She distinguished, of…

— Jincy Willett

The evasions of her little novel were exactly those of her life. Everything she did not wish to confront was also missing from her…

— Ian Mcewan

“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

“She loved people, she said, especially those in books, which was largely how she knew them, but she declined to associate with those who…

— Dean Koontz

“The same lustrous blue that took her into a where and when beyond time and space and caring, took her to Safe, where everything…

— Sophia Kell Hagin

The story line was done in a way that's organic and was doled out very slowly in little bites. We think that's authentic for…

— Laura Innes

The lie took form as she spoke, pulling on as many strands of truth as it could reach.

— Scott Westerfeld