Assuming Quote by Philip K. Dick

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

— Ashwin Sanghi

You need to keep something for yourself. As a writer, I feel that even more strongly. I feel like I need to be able…

— Tracy Chapman

When you read a great book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. There may be a superficial escape – into…

— Julian Barnes

As a reader myself, which precedes my being a writer, of course, I read in order to enter another world.

— Lynne Tillman

It's so easy, as a writer, to get stuck in your own head, to live in the little worlds you create. To forget that…

— Celeste Ng

I'm not a writer. I like being a reader.

— Brian Reynolds Myers

See, the thing is, as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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 write the books that I'm compelled to and I definitely learn things about the world when I write them, and I hope that…

— Colson Whitehead

I'm a novelist. Fortunately I don't have to rule the world.

— Salman Rushdie

When I write, I tend to be quite cut off from the world. At that point of time, I'm not thinking about editors, publishers…

— Amish Tripathi

Never forget that the truest luxury is imagination, and that being a writer gives you the leeway to exploit all of the imagination's curious…

— Andrew Solomon