“I write to escape. I haven’t managed it yet, but I’m working on it”— William Meikle Related Quotes “Only write if you can’t not.”— Samuel Shem “I decided that if I was never going to sell anything as long as I lived, I might as well do what I want to do ’cause then at least I would’ve done what I wanted to do in life. What’s that worth?”— Janet Fitch “…there must be an inviolate place where the choices and decisions, however imperfect, are the writer’s own, where the decision must be as individual and solitary as birth or death.”— Janet Frame