Quotes About Escape

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?

I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.

We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay.

It's an amazing thing to be able to fall into the world of your childhood fantasy.

We need fantasy to survive because reality is too difficult.

I have abandoned my search for truth and am now looking for a good fantasy

We read fantasy to find the colors again, I think. To taste strong spices and hear the songs the sirens sang.

Why are you messing with the fantasy? We know about the reality. Don't ruin the fantasy, OK?

To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and have a little idea as well, maybe you have some kind of a cross-breed between the two.

I absolutely adore working in the realms of fantasy.

The only way I can lose my mind in bed is to destroy myself in a fantasy.

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory

Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.

But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world.

Guess I've been reading too much fantasy.

Fantasy stories will always be popular, as there are always readers who are willing to escape, freely, to the worlds that the authors create, and spend time with the characters we give life to.

When you come into a movie theatre, there are no windows, you don't hear the sound outside and you're ready for fantasy.

For me, part of the fascination with making animation is you go to a place; it's a complete immersion in someone else's fantasy.

Most of my short stories are fantasy.

Megan Whalen Turner, The Thief

How can we not create a fantasy in our minds when the reality is so hard?

It's interesting, the sense of pastoral utopia that exists in so much fantasy - in [Edward ] Dunsany, [John R.R.] Tolkien and so on.

While growing up, I lived in my own fantasy world. I had kind of a rough childhood, so I created my own reality.

In a strange city, I connect through food and fantasy.