Even within escapist cinema, if you find a good story to tell, it will do well. — Farhan Akhtar Copy Share Image
Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The problem with most genre fantasy is that it's not nearly fantastic enough. It's escapist, but it can't escape. — China Mieville Copy Share Image
Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
As a reader, sometimes, I just want to not think. You know, I want to read something that is purely enjoyable: that… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
The Sims is an escapist vehicle for people who want to escape to where they already are, which is why I thought… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“When people say that this kind of fantasy fiction is escapist and evading the real world, well I think that’s an evasion.… — Tom Shippey Copy Share Image
“It may be escapist, but if I have a choice between watching the news or reading a book which gets me to… — Christina Westover Copy Share Image
It's time to start recognizing that not all escapist entertainment is created equal. And that some of it isn't even entertainment. "Miss… — Stephanie Zacharek Copy Share Image
I think horror films in the past maybe touched on social themes having to do with whatever era in which they were… — Brooke Nevin Copy Share Image
“I was ripe for the first escapist avenue that came my way. I will forever be grateful that it came in the… — Liesa Mignogna Copy Share Image
I think there's escapist moviemaking, and we want to be captivated and taken away. If it's done right, you can craft an… — Ryan Reynolds Copy Share Image
I like big escapist films. It's odd because the type of comedian I am and the things I do when I'm writing… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
I've always been an escapist, I guess, and I spend so much time on the internet absorbing ideas and processing the horrors… — Lindy West Copy Share Image
“I think myself I ought to be shot for writing such nonsense … But it's unquestionably good escapist literature and I think… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
If I have a rare Saturday night when I can go out to see a movie, I look at the paper and… — Jonathan Mostow Copy Share Image
I think that pretty much every form of fiction (I’d include fantasy, obviously) can actually be a real escape from places where… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The cry that 'fantasy is escapist' compared to the novel is only an echo of the older cry that novels are 'escapist'… — Tom Shippey Copy Share Image
We immerse ourselves in escapist mass entertainment, such as 'reality T.V.' programs. We support fanatical politicians and preachers. Our politicians, in turn,… — Brendan Myers Copy Share Image
The writer must face the fact that ordinary lives are what most people live most of the time, and that the novel… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I was selling a piece of my art on eBay from The Escapist, which was an adaptation of The Adventures of Kavalier… — Eric Wight Copy Share Image
“Haven't you noticed, too, on the part of nearly everyone you know, a growing rebellion against the present? And an increasing longing… — Jack Finney Copy Share Image
I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation. I'm an escapist kind of writer. — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
People want to see big, escapist fare. They don't want to be challenged to think. — Harvey Weinstein Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager I was a total romantic escapist. My world was books. — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
I know that keeping aloof is not a wise thing but since I have nothing to prove, please don't depict me as… — Suresh Gopi Copy Share Image
Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Television's escapist programming naturally continues to endorse living beyond one's means as the time-tested American Way and rarely depicts families or individuals… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
I think myself I ought to be shot for writing such nonsense… But it's unquestionably good escapist literature and I think I… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
Sometimes readers want some escapist fun, to get lost in the story. But light-hearted romantic stories can and should star all kinds… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
People do accuse me of being just decorative or an escapist - well I am. That's what I do. I am other… — Klaus Nomi Copy Share Image
![“I think myself I ought to be shot for writing such nonsense … But it's unquestionably good escapist literature and I think I should rather like it if I were sitting in an air-raid shelter or recovering from flu." [As quoted in Jane Aiken Hodge, The Private World of Georgette Heyer (p. xii).]” quote by Georgette Heyer](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/205/georgette-heyer-1080_books_i-think-myself-i-ought-to-be-shot-for-wr_1965702.jpg)
