Occasionally, I just need to escape from my work or be reminded of the comparative bliss of my own life, so I pick up a novel. – David Macaulay
I can’t seem to escape comedy. Whenever I sit down and try to write something serious, it just doesn’t work. – Greg Mottola
When you reach the editing stage, it is often the case that you can get too involved with the story to detect errors. You can see words in your head that aren’t actually there on the page, sentences blur together and errors escape you, and you follow plot threads and see only the images in your skull. – Neal Asher
It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches. – Frederick the Great
Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract. – Dennis Prager
Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places. – Franz Kafka
I just find it fascinating, like everybody, to be in a different life. It’s an escape. – Elizabeth McGovern
I cannot escape the feeling that I was, at best, a cancer tourist, that my survival means I dabbled. – David Rakoff
I didn’t really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment. – David Knopfler
You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can’t say I do like it very much. – Doris Lessing
I think my attitudes about the past are very traditional. You can’t ignore history; you can’t escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form. – Frank Gehry
Most of the time in America, we’re surrounded by oppressive inequality such that the wealthiest 1 percent collectively own substantially more than the bottom 90 percent. One escape from that is America’s wild places. – Nicholas Kristof
I was born on the first day of January 1941 in the front bedroom of my grandparents’ house in Rodborough near Stroud in Gloucestershire where my mother had come to escape the bombing in London. – Martin Evans
There’s no question that I’m African-American. OK? I’m a black man. We’re not going to escape that. – Mekhi Phifer
There are reasons people seek escape in books, and one of those reasons is that the boundary of what can happen is beyond what we do – or would want to see in real life. – James Patterson
The first song is called ‘London.’ It’s about two Russian soldiers who desert the Russian army and escape to London, where they indulge in a life of crime. – Neil Tennant
If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent, then you are a scoundrel… if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot. So here is a dilemma which others have suffered before us, and for which as far as I can see, there is simply no escape. – Martin Van Creveld
I’ve had times where I’ve joked, like, ‘I’m going to move to Vermont and become a painter.’ And sometimes that joke felt like, ‘Oh that’s a good idea.’ But it was only, like, a daydream for a moment to, like, escape. – Kate Micucci
The office is a romantic enabler because you’re always around the person you have a crush on. There’s no escape from, and maybe no desire to escape from, those pressure-cooker conditions. And there’s an automatic series of things you have to talk about all the time. – Joshua Ferris
