Quotes About Escapism

They say there's no harm in daydreaming, but there is.

I had never been able to fathom what people did with their free moments, if they didn't read.

I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a thought to influences or method or any other writerly concerns.

All the time we were growing up, Frank said, you wanted to run away and join the carnival? Yes, and there I was with all o' you, right in the carnival, and didn't even know it. And he hoped he'd always be able to recall the way she laughed then.

All through my life what I've loved doing is watching movies. I love the escapism of film, I love stories. So it is incredible to be able to be in them as much as I am, to see them from the first stitch in a costume to the end product.

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

As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon smoking opium in a yellow pongee silk suit. They sniffed cocaine in Mayfair and they penetrated forbidden swamps with a faithful native boy and lived in the native quarter of Tangier smoking hashish and languidly caressing a pet gazelle.

La escena, de por sí, me deprimía. Encender el televisor... Abandonar el mundo, la riqueza y variedad de la vida en ese mundo en el que yo ya no tenía nada que hacer, para encerrarme en la fascinación idiotizada de las imágenes [...]

People cannot stand too much reality.

All novels are impossible. We would not wish to read them if they were not. Can you imagine how dull a tale would be if it were completely founded in reality. I declare implausibility a must if the reader is not to be bored to tears.

paperback novel of the escapist kind, SAS action stuff where men were men and women mattresses.

A la gente que nos gusta leer, el mundo real nos da lo mismo.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid their own souls.

It's the same thing that happens when I turn off a really good movie - one that I've lost myself to - which is that I'll be thrown back to my own reality and something hollow will settle in my chest. Sometimes, I'll watch a movie all over again just to recapture that feeling of being inside something real. Which, I know, doesn't make any sense.

I clap because I know what will happen when I stop. It's the same thing that happens when I turn off a really good movie - one that I've lost myself to - which is that I'll be thrown back to my own reality and something hollow will settle in my chest. Sometimes, I'll watch a movie all over again just to recapture that feeling of being inside something real. Which, I know, doesn't make any sense.

some readers are tempted to ignore the challenges of their own lives and to live completely in the alternative reality of books. This can be dangerous and sinful, a rejection of the real world in which God has placed us.

She occasionally daydreamed about being the sort of character in a story who could faint and leave everyone else to sort things out. But that wasn't going to happen.

She occasionally daydreamed about being the sort of character in a story who could faint and leave everyone else to sort things out.

I believe that unfulfilled frustrated people probably spend a lot of their lives in pure fantasy-dreaming. This can I am sure be a great source of consolation though not always harmless.

enjoying literature as those alone enjoy it who have little else to enjoy.

You just want tae fuck up on drugs so that everyone'll think how deep and fucking complex you are. It's pathetic, and fucking boring.

Drugs are always fun.

People come to this place for one reason, and one reason only. However, the night is still relatively young, and the camouflage of drinking, talking and listening to music does not, at this point, seem too obvious.

They (Medievalists) are soft, dreamy people who find life too hard for them here and get lost in an ideal world of the past that never really existed.