A book acts as the getaway car when you need to escape.Even when you’re the one writing it.
– Julie Wright
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- Reading a good book is an escape to an alternative life, writing a good book is the closest thing to actually living that life. – Chas Scott
- Fame is an island, and right before the castaway, the getaway of being known without being known. – Criss Jami
- In a way, being an addict is very proactive. A good addiction takes the guesswork out of death. There is such a thing as planning your getaway. – Chuck Palahniuk
- Kicking a police car? Really?’ Caleb shrugged. ‘Car offended me. It was sitting right where I wanted to stand. What would you do? – Sherrilyn Kenyon
- Driving your car through deep pools of flood water is a great way of making your car unreliable. Smart people turn around and avoid it. – Steven Magee
- Take care of your car in the garage, and the car will take care of you on the road. – Amit Kalantri
- I would willingly pass my life writing and re-writing the same book – that one book every writer carries within him – the image of his own soul. – Ignazio Silone
- Writing a book is like raising a child, the only difference is you don’t have the ????ing part in writing a book. – MF Moonzajer
- Writing a book isn’t just about ‘writing a book.’ Unfortunately, it’s about selling it, and getting it out to the masses. – Margaret Aranda
- … a certain kind of wanderlust can only be assuaged by the acts of the body itself in motion, not the motion of the car, boat, or plane. – Rebecca Solnit
- Buy this book , buy this book , you need this book, buy book now.’Subliminal messaging works! – Nick Jimbanis
- When I get real bored, I like to drive downtown and get a great parking spot, then sit in my car and count how many people ask if I’m leaving. – Steven Wright
- If one does secret acts, what should one do to correct them? He should expose the acts and thereby he will no longer fear anyone. – Dada Bhagwan
- I can tell the difference between the acts of a man and the acts of God. That’s why I still believe. I could always tell the difference. – Dee Henderson
- It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of the stream. – Kim Stanley Robinson
- Just like small acts of kindness can pave the way for a better world, small acts of corruption open the road for a corrupt world. – Charbel Tadros
- The acts of observing and judging are necessarily solitary acts. – Mike Klepper
- I’m writing a book. I’m almost finished. I numbered the pages. Now all I have to do is fill them in. – Steven Wright
- It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one’s acts. – Mahatma Gandhi
- All this time I thought you were reading to escape the world, but now I know, you didn’t read to escape it; you read to discover it. – Brittainy C Cherry
- The one thing that we need to escape is our minds, but our minds are the one thing that we cannot escape from. – Anonymous
- if the count of monte cristo could escape the chateau d’if, william smithback could escape from river oaks – Douglas Preston
- To survive was to escape fate. But if you escape your fate, whose life do you then step into? – Anne Michaels
- You’re trying to escape from your difficulties, and there never is any escape from difficulties, never. They have to be faced and fought. – Enid Blyton
- What doesn’t kill us gives us something new to write about. – Julie Wright
- The art of writing involves making as many cups of tea as you can in the time available for writing. Then adding extra time for writing… – Alan Dapre
- You’re never as good a writer as you think you are, and you’re never as bad. Just keep reading and writing, writing, writing. – Don Roff
- Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing… the rest will follow. – Jane Yolen
- Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as the headlights but you can make the whole trip that way. – ELDoctorow
- Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. – EL Doctorow
- Writing is easy. Writing a publishable book is hard. – Eliza Green
- If you find holes in my book that you could drive a car through, do not be too sure they were not left there for that express purpose. – Mary Austin
- I wrote a book on cats. In retrospect, I should have used paper, cause chapter six got hit by a car. – Wynne McLaughlin
- Every stage of life is a chapter of a book. You must begin writing your life book. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- It’s easy to write a sentence, paragraph, or book. What’s difficult is writing the best sentence, paragraph, or book, you can write. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Life is a book. Keep writing your book. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Writing involves many [acts] tasks, not just generating text – Paul J Silvia
- A book is no mere book anymore than man can be mere man. A book was like an individual man, unmatched and with no cause of existence beyond himself. – Marcel Proust
- A blessed companion is a book–a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend…a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into your own. – Douglas William Jerrold
- But Moby-???? is the explanation of America. It’s not just a novel. It is a book of prophecy. It is the book. It is the book of America. – Robert Stone