About Quote by Lauren Schmidt Hissrich

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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

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

— S.J. Pierce

Perhaps fantasy offers imaginative escapism more than other genres.

— Jasper Fforde

Escapism for me can come in the form of someone else's reality.

— Lena Dunham

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

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

The problem with most genre fantasy is that it's not nearly fantastic enough. It's escapist, but it can't escape.

— China Mieville

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

A fantasy is a world where anyone fits in.

— Anya Chalotra

Escapism- that's what I like. I'm not so crazy about the reality of everything.

— Michael Jackson

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

— Adam Cohen