Enough Quote by China Mieville

Perhaps fantasy offers imaginative escapism more than other genres.

— Jasper Fforde

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory

— J. R. R. Tolkien

“Fiction is a vehicle to escapism. But fantasy, in my opinion, is escapism in its most vibrant and enchanting form.”

— S.J. Pierce

Fantasy is escapism, but wait... Why is this wrong? What are you escaping from, and where are you escaping to? Is the story opening…

— Terry Pratchett

Current cant equates fantasy with escapism, and current fashion would have it that fantasy is both easy to read and to write. It isn't.…

— Ellen Kushner

Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't…

— R. A. Salvatore

People often ask me if fantasy is about escapism, and I personally don't think it is.

— Lauren Schmidt Hissrich

I've spoken often of how the fantasy genre is able to, with the greatest freedom among all the genres, take a metaphor and make…

— Steven Erikson

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

“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 always find myself pulled back into the fantasy genre, and I can't really explain it.

— Nick Willing

Can't get my head around sci-fi or fantasy. I'm not putting those genres down; it's just that I'm not built for them.

— George Pelecanos