Escapist Quotes
34 Escapist quotes by 30 unique authors
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The Sims is an escapist vehicle for people who want to escape to where they already are, which is why I thought this game was…
— Chuck Klosterman
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The problem with most genre fantasy is that it's not nearly fantastic enough. It's escapist, but it can't escape.
— China Mieville
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Ecstasy is a complex emotion containing elements of joy, fear, terror, triumph, surrender, and empathy. What has replaced our prehistoric understanding of this complex of…
— Terence McKenna
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I think myself I ought to be shot for writing such nonsense.... But it's unquestionably good escapist literature and I think I should rather like…
— Georgette Heyer
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I think that pretty much every form of fiction (I’d include fantasy, obviously) can actually be a real escape from places where you feel bad,…
— Neil Gaiman
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Minimalism? It is something I appreciate as an art form but leave to others - unless you count a collection of warhorse-workwear Yves Saint Laurent…
— Suzy Menkes
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The writer must face the fact that ordinary lives are what most people live most of the time, and that the novel as a narration…
— John Updike
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Pop music for me was definitely escapist, but never studious.
— Siouxsie Sioux
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When I was a teenager I was a total romantic escapist. My world was books.
— Colin Wilson
Who Wrote These Escapist Quotes
30 authors contributed a total of 34 Escapist Quotes, led by these top contributors: