Artistry Quote by Wentworth Miller

For me books have always been an incredibly solid part of my life, both as escapism and simply as resource.

— Jackie French

I take escapism from books.

— Vick Hope

“Escapism isn't good or bad of itself. What is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to. I write…

— Terry Pratchett

A great book should leave you with many experiences.

— William Styron

If you need drugs to be a good writer, you are not a good writer.

— Rod Serling

Novel writing is like heroin addiction; it takes everything you've got.

— James N. Frey

Sometimes novels are considered 'important' in the way medicine is - they taste terrible and are difficult to get down your throat, but are…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.

— Karl Lagerfeld

The more I read, the hungrier I become. Each book seemed promising, each page I turned offered an escapade, the allure of another world,…

— Tatiana de Rosnay

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

“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

“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