Books Quote by Michael Chabon

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

“Escapism sold books, to be sure, but not nearly as many as were sold by exposing America’s flaws and making the average American reader…

— Michael Korda

Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness.

— Bell Hooks

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

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

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

“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

“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

I live in my own bubble. I was looking for an audience that wouldn't necessarily be looking for escapism when they came to my…

— Art Spiegelman

“I write thrillers for the same reason that people read them – it's escapism.”

— Ken McClure

“We offer a stark contrast to the bland escapism that chokes the charts,”

— Tom Morello