Concern Quote by Maggie Stiefvater

“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 think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.

— Gary Shteyngart

I think that horror fiction is one of the ways to approach these problems of death.

— Clive Barker

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

We divert our attention from disease and death as much as we can; the slaughterhouses are huddled out of sight and never mentioned, so…

— William James

Science fiction should not be dismissed as escapism. It is a profound vehicle for talking about social and political issues.

— Robert J. Sawyer

I think that fiction is an excellent place for us to struggle with questions of good and evil, and humanity and inhumanity.

— Brent Weeks

Society has a fascination with death.

— Sheryl Lee

When we speak about a culture of violence in the American society, we're not just talking about the mass killers. We're also talking about…

— Jim Steyer

If you look at the horror genre, that work is all about making people uncomfortable by stimulating our fear of death.

— Ottessa Moshfegh

I'd love to see us get to a point where you can make a movie and not worry about the limits of the violence.…

— Eli Roth

Especially for those of us living in the Western culture, death to a large extent is still a taboo subject. It's considered something dreadful…

— Eckhart Tolle