"Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory" — J.R.R. Tolkien

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• 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… — Van Jones
• My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also… — 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… — Edward Albee
• Spread the glad tidings that it will not disappoint Miss Heyer's many admirers. Judging from the letters I've received from… — Georgette Heyer
• Besides the alternate universe offered by a book, the quiet space of a museum was my favorite place to go.… — Amy Plum
• Modern man is a hard driven nomad without any stability, not (as the Bible has it) a wanderer or a… — 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… — Timothy Leary
• Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don't we consider it… — J.R.R. Tolkien
• The cry that 'fantasy is escapist' compared to the novel is only an echo of the older cry that novels… — Tom Shippey

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