Authors Quote by Richelle E. Goodrich

“The suffering of being imprisoned rests in the fact that it is impossible, at any time, to escape from oneself.”

— Kōbō Abe

“If I don't stay in and write, I feel like a prisoner.”

— Amaya Ellman

“There are no accusations with writing, no judgment, no shame, only freedom. As the pen touches the paper, for a moment, I'm alive.”

— Jessica Sorensen

“Being locked up is one thing, but to have no concept of confinement, to be ignorant of its terms and never understand that struggle…

— David Sedaris

“My prison will be my grave before I budge a jot, for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.”

— William Penn

“Hard to save anybody when you're locked up, when you're too busy trying to fight to save yourself. When you've made yourself a prisoner.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

“Because every one of us has our box, a dark chamber stowing the thing that lanced our heart. It contains what you do everything…

— Marisha Pessl

“I am living in hell from one day to the next. But there is nothing I can do to escape. I don't know where…

— Haruki Murakami

“and as my gray hands drop a last desperate pen in some cheap room they will find me there and never know my name…

— Charles Bukowski

“I’d reconstruct Heaven, or usurp Hell— write till I swing open like a door hinge. I arrive—a rogue who’d refurbish town. I take my…

— BJ Ward

“But sometimes, when confronted by something of unfathomable beauty, the bars of the cage around us begin to tremble. So I ran away to…

— Simon Van Booy

“In short, from then on, we accepted our status as prisoners; we were reduced to our past alone and even if a few people…

— Albert Camus