Escapist Quotes

34 quotes by 30 authors

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory — J.R.R. Tolkien
I'm an escapist kind of writer. — Maeve Binchy
Now is not the time to shrink from the challenge of saving our only home in the universe. Now is not the time to pull… — Van Jones
My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift… — Allen Toussaint
Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness. — Bell Hooks
All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don't want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don't think… — Edward Albee
Spread the glad tidings that it will not disappoint Miss Heyer's many admirers. Judging from the letters I've received from obviously feeble-minded persons who do… — Georgette Heyer
Besides the alternate universe offered by a book, the quiet space of a museum was my favorite place to go. My mom said I was… — Amy Plum
Modern man is a hard driven nomad without any stability, not (as the Bible has it) a wanderer or a pilgrim, but a refugee-an escapist.… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
My mom said I was an escapist at heart.... that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one — Amy Plum
The neurogenetic meaning of the cultural revolution is now clear. Neurochemicals are designed to be pursuitist, not escapist. They open the nervous system to the… — Timothy Leary
Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape? — J.R.R. Tolkien
The cry that 'fantasy is escapist' compared to the novel is only an echo of the older cry that novels are 'escapist' compared with biography,… — Tom Shippey
I don't see why escapist literature shouldn't also be a work of art. — P.D. James
All in all, I think that out of all musical genres, the world of metal is the most escapist one. Metal is also music for… — Tuomas Holopainen
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
I am fine, though it is hard to think of what kind of work to make at this point, other than decorative, escapist or abstract.… — Cindy Sherman
We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography? — John Kenneth Galbraith
It just seems like the most successful, iconic love stories are not so easy or escapist. I think the ones that stay with us and… — Claire Danes
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 wracked by the… — Tom Shales

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