Books Quote by Terry Pratchett

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 take escapism from books.

— Vick Hope

“All books are escapism. They are life with the boring bits cut out.”

— Jean Chapman

“If fiction and fantasy books are escapism, then let an author write them so as to better equip the reader to face reality by…

— Brett Armstrong

I'm an escapist kind of writer.

— Maeve Binchy

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

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

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

— Ken McClure

“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

One of the biggest motivations for me with writing my books is to offer girls some escapism, especially girls who really need it, like…

— Meg Cabot

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

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