They say that to escape reality is when you sleep, but when you sleep your sub conscious is in control of your dreams. For me to escape reality is when I read and write. When I read the world around me doesn't exist. The world in the story does and when I write I'm in control. Think of it as the author is the god of the world that they created. They set the characters fate.

The attraction of reading is that it allows you to live, for a few hours, as someone else__rants you access to their head, their thoughts, their secrets.

If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages.

Just write. That's my only tip. And read. I guess that's two.

As long as music survives, poetry will never die.

I write because that is what I am supposed to do.