Fiction Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith Download Open image “We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?” — John Kenneth Galbraith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fiction Why not
Science fiction should not be dismissed as escapism. It is a profound vehicle for talking about social and political issues. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“If fiction and fantasy books are escapism, then let an author write them so as to better equip the reader to face reality by… — Brett Armstrong Copy Share Image
Movies and novels, the two things that informed and taught me the most, are forms of escapism. I thought that was how life could… — Jason Diamond Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The cry that 'fantasy is escapist' compared to the novel is only an echo of the older cry that novels are 'escapist' compared with… — Tom Shippey Copy Share Image
“In the language of the day it is customary to describe a certain sort of book as “escapist” literature. As I understand it, the… — A.A. Milne Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Getting on the cover of TIME guarantees the existence of opposition in the future. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Men can labor to make sense out of single steps toward the goal without ever pausing to reflect that the goal itself is ludicrous.” — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Consumer wants can have bizarre, frivolous, or even immoral origins, and an admirable case can still be made for a society that seeks to… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
That one never need to look beyond the love of money for explanation of human behavior is one of the most jealously guarded simplification… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Agriculture is one economic activity that does not obey the laws of demand and supply. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
World War II revealed two of the enduring features of the Keynesian Revolution. One was the moral difference between spending for welfare and spending… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Money is what fueled the industrial society. But in the informational society, the fuel, the power, is knowledge. One has now come to see… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
While it will be desirable to achieve planned results, it will be even more important to avoid unplanned disasters. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“…progress isn't necessarily about change but about things turning out as we want them to” — Phil Hogan Copy Share Image
The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also think some… — Edward Einhorn Copy Share Image
Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for boys, these are books for girls, these… — L.A. Weatherly Copy Share Image
Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear,… — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“His hands on my waist he gently pulled me n embrace. I could feel his breath on my face our lips were about to… — Nicole Eglinger Copy Share Image
In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
I don't think it's always a sign of respect for persons (inside or outside of fiction) to pretend to be able to represent, to… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
