Arca Quotes

There are days where I lose track of time, of place, of everything else, because I've been transported to another universe.

I love going to movies. It's just big, it takes you away, you can escape into it.

Reading takes me to a different place than my everyday life. I usually get fully involved in what I'm reading about, so it's a great escape.

I think relaxation is escaping from your everyday encounters. You can read the words on a page and be transported to somewhere else. And the more consumed you are with it, the more you're cocooned.

What release to write so that one forgets oneself, forgets one's companion, forgets where one is or what one is going to do next to be drenched in sleep or in the sea. Pencils and pads and curling blue sheets alive with letters heap up on the desk.

When I have a book I enjoy, I'm partly in the book. I'm not just observing it.

I'm trying to tell a story, to entertain. I try and do something that might just take people's minds off their troubles.

When people come into the theater, whether it's the screen or the stage, they've gotta be transported and transformed.

On any given day, if I play the guitar, I can put myself somewhere. I always thought, 'This is the way you go.' It's like a magic carpet, see?

There's something attractive about making people temporarily forget their actual age by taking them out of their normal lives so completely. Doesn't travel, by its very nature, strive to do this?

Ultimately, the idea of being able to escape and lose myself in a new world every time I go to 'work' was too appealing to ignore.

For me, like anyone, you want to go into a movie and have an enjoyable time where you're just involved.

I see people's need to dream, people's need to escape - you see it! That's why people come to comedy shows, that's why they come to your movies ... We're so needed in this world. Not as much as medicine , but to dream for a while.

A curious thing happened: the terrains of England began to impinge on my consciousness, altering, then effacing, the world outside the library window… I was wrapped in a pleasurable dreaminess. I was in a better place. If true life existed elsewhere, then I had almost found it.

When I'm reading, wherever I am, I'm always somewhere else.

A lot of peopletell me I'm a bit dreamy, but I like the idea of that. Of being somewhere else.

When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.

I've never learned to drive because I get lots of ideas when I'm a passenger in a car. I love to get in a car with a driver and just think and work things out.

I'm absolutely removed from the world at such times...The hours go by without my knowing it. Sitting there I'm wandering in countries I can see every detail of - I'm playing a role in the story I'm reading. I actually feel I'm the characters - I live and breath with them.

Pardon me if this all sounds corny, but when you put on a record, I'd like it to be an escape from everything you do.

I get in that zone, even if I'm relaxing or whatever, where I just zone out. I don't even hear anybody. You could ask me a question five times, and I don't even hear it.

For me, if I didn't have reading I'd go absolutely crazy. It really helps me to unplug from the whole world, and keep my sanity, and be able to fill my time with something other than technology.

In a game, I'm locked in. I maybe notice three rows in the stands the arena over, and that's it.

I love writing fiction and can do it anywhere - I once even missed a flight because I was so engrossed.

I daydream all the time.