fictional escape Quotes

There was a price to be paid for being interested in fiction and in writing, pushing my family away. Books and authors became my family.

A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.

The best readers come to fiction to be free of ... all that isn't fiction.

When I'm in the middle of a book it can go up from there. When you're putting in those hours, the real world kind of fades and the world you're creating becomes almost more real to you than the outside world.

You can escape into a character.

Literature duplicates the experience of living in a way that nothing else can, drawing you so fully into another life that you temporarily forget you have one of your own. That is why you read it, and might even sit up in bed till early dawn, throwing your whole tomorrow out of whack, simply to find out what happens to some people who, you know perfectly well, are made up.

The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements.

Having spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world.

"The Wolfpack" is a real life clash of life and fiction and the saving power of brotherhood and make-believe.

You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go on writing. My answer is most emphatically yes. I would go on writing for company. Because I'm creating an imaginary - it's always imaginary - world in which I would like to live.

Escapism has its place. I used to write 'Conan the Barbarian' for Marvel, which takes place in an environment completely removed from the real world.

I love words because you can only live one life, but in a novel, you can live a thousand: you contain multitudes.

He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them, as if each page was a hole into another world.

Now that I no longer feel lonely, and now that my own past feels resolved in a whole new and very deep way, I am excited to write about the real world, to stay in it. Fiction is an escape, a parallel life, and it was a powerful source of comfort for me when my own life was raw and uncomfortable. I don't feel the burning need to disappear into a fictional character these days.

I think part of what I like about being a fiction writer is that I can inhabit something that's beyond the limits of my own personality.