“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
“How can you be happy in this world? You have a hole in your heart. You have a gateway inside you to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Reader's Bill of Rights 1. The right to not read 2. The right to skip pages 3. The right to not finish… — Daniel Pennac Copy Share Image
Music is escapism from the grim realities of life. But then as soon as you escape into the music, from my point… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
“Some people call reading an escape, but it's not - it's embracing the true reality of the best parts of who we… — Sean Gibson Copy Share Image
When I look back at what I've written and try to explain it, it doesn't help, but it helps to be in… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
“Masterpiece" lives on and on because it brilliantly does one of the things television is supposed to do: it entertains and distracts.… — Rebecca Eaton Copy Share Image
“I took another road, past the old sugar works and the water wheel that had not turned for years. I went to… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
“Escapism sold books, to be sure, but not nearly as many as were sold by exposing America’s flaws and making the average… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
“He was not a tall man, but he was wide. His face was the color and texture of old leather boots, and… — Grahame Shannon Copy Share Image
“The shaping of a golem, to him, was a gesture of hope, offered against hope, in a time of desperation. It was… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“What chilled my blood was a felt marker outline of a woman on the wall. Hands above the head, where there was… — Grahame Shannon Copy Share Image
“The newspaper articles that Joe had read about the upcoming Senate investigation into comic books always cited "escapism" among the litany of… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Mysticism has often been misunderstood as the attempt to escape this simple, phenomenal world to a more pure existence in heaven beyond.… — Walter Wink Copy Share Image
Drama can feel like therapy whereas comedy feels like there's been a pressure and a weight lifted off of you. You come… — Gabrielle Union Copy Share Image
The appeal of the paranormal bad boy - or James Bond super-spy, as one example of male escapism - can sometimes make… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
I’m just a person who wants to be honest and do good, make people happy and give them the greatest sense of… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
“I envisaged a perfect detective’s assistant. She’d have long, wavy blonde hair, a short skirt, and curves in all the right places.… — Grahame Shannon Copy Share Image
“It was an effort formulating this summary, explaining myself. I preferred the distant past, centuries that were over and done with, ghosts… — Leila Aboulela Copy Share Image
I understand that a lot of other actors don't have a choice. They have to eat so they need to work and… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
Expeditions are escapism. The stuff that we're normally concerned about just doesn't matter out there. Tax returns, gas bill, none of it.… — Ben Saunders Copy Share Image
“All of a sudden his books, which had hitherto been merely a fond decoration and a means of letting his mind free… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
People talk about escapism as if it's a bad thing... Once you've escaped, once you come back, the world is not the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost… — Rebecca Mead Copy Share Image
