Books Quote by Jason Diamond

Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.

— Adam Cohen

I take escapism from books.

— Vick Hope

That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life.

— Ella Maillart

No one sets out to write escapism as a film's subject matter unless, maybe, you are making a fantasy flick.

— Rajkumar Hirani

I wondered why people consider escapism so bad, even the escapism on display right then. At first it might appear unseemly, but in the…

— Anonymous

“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

One way of understanding a graphic novel is that it's an ambitious comic and one way or another my comics have had ambitions. I…

— Art Spiegelman

“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

It strikes me that people want to be engaged, and that those who go into a bookstore in a time of crisis are much…

— Michael Korda

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 don't go to the movies for escapism, so I don't make movies for it either. And it's totally fine that people do, I…

— Ti West

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