Dark Quote by Laird Barron

“I used to write as an escape. There’s no escape. There’s just me sending my voice into the dark, waiting for an echo." –…

— Laird Barron

Writing is not primarily escape, but use.

— Henry James

Writing dark poetry was always my escape.

— Bishop Briggs

When anyone escapes, my heart / leaps up. Even when it's I who am escaped from, / I am half on the side of the leaver.

— Sharon Olds

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 wanted to escape the unrest, to shut out the voices around me and within me, so I write.

— Franz Kafka

For me writing is that place where I can escape; it's where I let my thoughts run wild.

— Ella Henderson

I think parts of my soul have been saved by my writing, not in the sense of escaping death, but escaping the death of…

— Pattiann Rogers

For me, writing is such an escape, and I felt very lucky to have this to run away to.

— Rachel Joyce

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

For echo is the soul of the voice exciting itself in hollow places.

— Michael Ondaatje

When I'm writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is.

— Anne Rice