Creative Escape Quotes

I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

When I’m behind a camera I forget I exist.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be killed and not have to write.

A lot of the issues I faced in junior high was what got me into animation. It was easier to sit on the side and draw cartoons than to engage with people.

When I'm engaged in a story my health is not a big deal, but when I'm not doing anything, if you sit me down, I can get tied up in my own medical dramas. So I much prefer to work.

Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, 'I want to get out and become like him'. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.

I wanted to be a cheerleader, like my sister was - all the most popular and beautiful girls are cheerleaders and I wanted that, and it demolished this vision of myself. That's when I found the piano, when music saved me; that's when I first attempted to write my own songs.

In all honesty, my favorite place to write is an anonymous, cheap hotel in a city or town where nobody knows me, the wireless service is spotty, and the adjoining gas station has coffee, beer and junk food.

I think of fiction as the highest calling. I'm kind of addicted to it. It's the thing that has gotten me through all the hard points in my life.

There is a quiet place in Hawaii where, for over thirty years, I've gone to draw inspiration and write many of my books.

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

I spend my life writing fiction, so reading fiction isn't much of an escape. That's not always true, but I don't read much contemporary fiction.

I feel very lucky that when I'm burnt out of acting I take to the pen and I write something I want to direct.

I should say, I don't write about myself or my life. So for me, in fiction, it's always been about what I can dream up, that feels far away from me.

Art is not consciousness per se, but rather its antidote- evolved from within consciousness itself.

I have realised how exciting and easy it is to be a time traveller by looking at paintings and films and architecture and playing music or listening to it. I don't think you necessarily have to live in the present all the time.

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

Music is the outlet for me because when I do step into the studio, I feel no barriers.

When I watch a movie, I want to be taken away into worlds that are beyond my imagination.

To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.

When the real world intrudes on your musical fantasies, I get put out.

Why one writes is a question I can answer easily, having so often asked it of myself. I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live. I could not live in any of the worlds offered to me - the world of my parents, the world of war, the world of politics. I had to create a world of my own, like a climate, a country, an atmosphere in which I could breathe, reign, and recreate myself when destroyed by living. That, I believe, is the reason for every work of art.