Escapists Quote by Amy Plum

Besides the alternate universe offered by a book, the quiet space of a museum was my favorite place to go. My mom said I…

— Amy Plum

I had the idea that there were two worlds. There was a real world as I called it, a world of wars and boxing…

— Norman Mailer

I think I've always been drawn to the second person. When I was growing up and playing with my friends, the usual way we…

— Mohsin Hamid

Instead of inventing imaginary friends, I invented whole imaginary worlds. They were elaborate scenarios about spies and adventurers and top secret missions. I crawled…

— Robin Wasserman

Escapism for me can come in the form of someone else's reality.

— Lena Dunham

Movies and novels, the two things that informed and taught me the most, are forms of escapism. I thought that was how life could…

— Jason Diamond

Escapism- that's what I like. I'm not so crazy about the reality of everything.

— Michael Jackson

“Until you have examined and comprehended the world around you, you can't possibly create a complex and believable imaginary world.”

— Orson Scott Card

“If you have left the real world and entered an imaginary one. Thank the author, that showed you the way. Please leave a review,…

— Erik Dean

Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own - and I realized that there was another world.

— Bette Midler

But to me, 'Worlds' is meant as kind of an appreciation of fiction and stories and escapism and fantasy.

— Porter Robinson

While growing up, I lived in my own fantasy world. I had kind of a rough childhood, so I created my own reality.

— Roger Ross Williams