“Writing is an escape from life reading is living a different life.”
“A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from this.”
“Life is limited, but by writing, and reading, we can live in different worlds, get inside the skins and minds of other people, and, in this way, push out the boundaries of our own lifes.”
“Writing stories is my way of scratching that itch: my escape from the claustrophobia of individuality. It lets me, at least for a while, live more than one life, walk more than one path. Reading, of course, can do the same.”
“One Reads to Experience Life, But one Writes to Live...”
“Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction.”