Adults Quote by Bell Hooks

As a reader, sometimes, I just want to not think. You know, I want to read something that is purely enjoyable: that is, like,…

— Jesmyn Ward

“Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those who ate…

— Neil Gaiman

“If fiction and fantasy books are escapism, then let an author write them so as to better equip the reader to face reality by…

— Brett Armstrong

I'm an escapist kind of writer.

— Maeve Binchy

“I write thrillers for the same reason that people read them – it's escapism.”

— Ken McClure

“Fiction is usually seen as escapist entertainment...But it's hard to reconcile the escapist theory of fiction with the deep patterns we find in the…

— Jonathan Gottschall

I take escapism from books.

— Vick Hope

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

“The newspaper articles that Joe had read about the upcoming Senate investigation into comic books always cited "escapism" among the litany of injurious consequences…

— Michael Chabon

“Individuals who frequently read fiction seem to be better able to understand other people, empathize with them and see the world from their perspective.”

— Annie Murphy Paul

“Escapism isn't good or bad of itself. What is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to. I write…

— Terry Pratchett

My books are just pure escapism for kids.

— Dav Pilkey