Escape Quote by Jennifer Egan

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

I love writing for and about women. In my whole career I have.

— Mitch Glazer

My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people.

— Paul Thomas Anderson

What I write is all from my imagination. Fact is, I haven't had time to experience all that, but that doesn't mean to say…

— Mariah Carey

I write from what's in my heart. I write what I love and have always done that.

— Kim Carnes

I write characters and stories that move me, and I write from the heart.

— Robert Crais

Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to.

— Ashwin Sanghi

I'm a writer through and through. I'll always write.

— Steven Rinella

I've been writing most of my life; it's just something I do.

— Alejandro Zambra

I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons. But most of all, I write because…

— Isabel Allende

Largely I write from life. ... I write from what happens to me. Mostly about love. People notice the other stuff more but I…

— David Crosby

My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.

— Alain de Botton