Quotes About Escapism

I do like escapism. I like going to the movies on a Friday night and seeing something fun.

I know, these Hindi movies are crap, but they do kind of take your mind away from the crap of real life like nothing else.

While we read a novel, we are insane--bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't there, we hear their voices, we watch the battle of Borodino with them, we may even become Napoleon. Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.

Television is simply automated day-dreaming.

I like a story that could never happen to me. If I want real life I'll read a newspaper.

sometimes life is a whole lot more interesting inside my head than it is on the outside.

You probably popped open this tome hoping to find some kick-butt battles, some pithy wisecracks, some unlikely but oh-so-possible end-of-the-world scenario, only to find me up a tree, wallowing in self-pity.

En compañía de un libro uno se aburre mucho menos.

It is possible to read too many novels. Henry Tileny, Northanger Abbey

En mi opinión, no hay placer mayor que la lectura.

I declare after all ,there is no enjoyment like reading!!

Con ese libro hacía lleva­deras sus horas de ocio y se sentía consolado en las de abatimiento.

No one sets out to write escapism as a film's subject matter unless, maybe, you are making a fantasy flick.

I love Steve Harvey on 'Family Feud.' I love 'Antiques Roadshow' and 'Fixer Upper.' Anything that's mind-numbing.

Nights without work I spend with whisky and books.

Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.

But perhaps the greatest escapism of all is to take refuge in the domesticity of the past, the home that history and literature become, avoiding the one moment of time in which we are not at home, yet have to live: the present.

Much is said about escapism in narrative and fiction. But perhaps the greatest escapism of all is to take refuge in the domesticity of the past, the home that history and literature become, avoiding the one moment of time in which we are not at home, yet have to live: the present.

You just go around acting like you're saving other people so you don't have to deal with your own problems.

banging on a keyboard, and coming home to a drunken existence on the weekends?

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

I think what makes Narnia a magical place is that it offers escapism - escapism from a world that is so different from the reality known by the characters and the reality known by the fans.

Perhaps fantasy offers imaginative escapism more than other genres.

Oh! I killed Bunbury this afternoon... I mean poor Bunbury died this afternoon. What did he die of? Bunbury? Oh, he was exploded!