Inspirational Quote by Henry James Download Open image “Writing is not primarily escape, but use.” — Henry James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Inspirational Love Use Writing
Why wouldn't you write to escape yourself as much as you might write to express yourself? It's far more interesting to write about others. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Writing is an outlet, but it’s not an outlet of escape. People keep a journal when they want to escape. I write to rub… — Amelia Gray Copy Share Image
For me, writing is such an escape, and I felt very lucky to have this to run away to. — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture. — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Writing let me escape... It let me escape the insistent tug of my family, and its ongoing misery. Sitting in front of the computer,… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Writing is like building a bridge while you're on it. If you step forward you fall off and there's nothing in front of you. — Jason Schwartzman Copy Share Image
For me writing is that place where I can escape; it's where I let my thoughts run wild. — Ella Henderson Copy Share Image
“I write to escape. I haven't managed it yet, but I'm working on it” — William Meikle Copy Share Image
Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors. — Henry James Copy Share Image
“In literature we move through a blest world in which we know nothing except by style, but in which everything is saved by it.” — Henry James Copy Share Image
“I shall stay here as long as I may, I don't want to think — I needn't think. I don't care for anything but… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“...It often seemed to her that she thought too much about herself, you could have made her blush any day of the year, by… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“I reflected acutely that the sense of such differences, such superiorities of quality, always, on the part of the majority—which could include even stupid,… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“She had had a real fright but had fallen back to earth. The odd thing was that in her fall her fear too had… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“She had never met a woman who had less of that fault which is the principal obstacle to friendship - the air of reproducing… — Henry James Copy Share Image
If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it. — Henry James Copy Share Image
It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games — Henry James Copy Share Image
We talk to God--that is prayer; God talks to us--that is inspiration. — H. Emilie Cady Copy Share Image
You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just understand that the good that you want is already here. All you have to do is get in harmony with it. And you… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image