Books Quote by Brett Armstrong

“When people say that this kind of fantasy fiction is escapist and evading the real world, well I think that’s an evasion. It’s actually…

— Tom Shippey

“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

“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

“The job of a fiction writer is to engage the reader and rip them from reality.”

— Tom Wiseman

“Writing novels allows the novelist to spend much of his time in a fictional world, which is really the only or at least the…

— Javier Marías

There's no real objection to escapism, in the right places... We all want to escape occasionally. But science fiction is often very far from…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“When you are writing a novel, you as the author will wear many hats. You are the writer, reader, and most importantly you are…

— LaQuita Cameron

“Novels should reflect reality to some extent, otherwise they risk being sentimental.”

— Marc Levy

“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

Novelists should be free to write whatever they want, to let their imaginations roam as close to or as removed from reality as they…

— Sarah Weinman

“Fiction though it is a fiction, should be written in a way that it feels like a reality, a reality every reader willingly or…

— Arti Honrao