Escaping Quote by Terry Pratchett

People talk about escapism as if it's a bad thing... Once you've escaped, once you come back, the world is not the same as…

— Neil Gaiman

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

I wondered why people consider escapism so bad, even the escapism on display right then. At first it might appear unseemly, but in the…

— Anonymous

Everyone wants to escape, everyone's drawn to escapism to leave their lives for an hour or two, and we're all so curious as human…

— Josh Bowman

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

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

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

“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

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

“The newspaper articles that Joe had read about the upcoming Senate investigation into comic books always cited "escapism" among the litany of injurious consequences…

— Michael Chabon

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

It just seems to me that the world's kind of a mess, and the more messy it gets, the more interested I am in…

— Eric Stoltz