Quotes About Escapism

That's not fair! You can't talk back to the Tales! They are all we have!

The clouds reminded me of hootch, the rain reminded me of hootch, the stars reminded me of hootch. I used to dream about girls before I got on the hootch but after that I just used to dream about hootch. I mean dreams are supposed to come from some very deep part of your mind like sex but with me it was hootch.

If the world is where we hide from ourselves, what do we do when the world is no longer accessible? We invent a false name, invent a destiny, purchase a firearm through the mail.

Sometimes readers want some escapist fun, to get lost in the story. But light-hearted romantic stories can and should star all kinds of girls.

Come on, forget your troubles and enjoy yourself. Tonight, there is no tomorrow. Eat, drink and be merry.

Remember literature, Charlie? It involved getting drunk and getting laid.

If the world is where we hide from ourselves, what do we do when the world is no longer accessible? We invent a false name, invent a destiny, purchase a firearm through the mail.

Si tuviera que enumerar todas las virtudes del alcohol, no acabaría nunca.

She lives so completely in books that I don't think she takes anything that happens in the real world very seriously. She

Thus it had come about that she had read far more fiction, and far more poetry, those two sanctuaries of the lonely, than most of her kind.

You do not even think of your own past as quite real; you dress it up, you gild it or blacken it, censor it, tinker with it ... fictionalize it, in a word, and put it away on a shelf - your book, your romanced autobiography. We are all in flight from the real reality. That is a basic definition of Homo sapiens.

Americans no longer experience vacations. They simply Sony them so they can ignore them for the rest of the year.

There's a reason we're fiction writers, you know—real life sucks; make-believe is our business," I try to tell her.

But this is what we do: we dream on, and our dreams escape us almost as vividly as we can imagine them. That's what happens, like it or not.

The sad moment when you return to your boring and ordinary life after watching an awesome movie.

Tonight I let loose, I live free, but only for the moment, because insecurities make it hard to be me, courage is hard to find, and I only drink so I can unwind.

I hate Tolkien. I mean. Bloody pretentious escapist nonsense, isn't it?

You must come out into the real world and face these problems sensibly and maturely. These lavatories are just an adolescent escape-mechanism, like going to the pictures; they're a dream world. You must come to terms with things, and not expect too much.

If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.

If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.

The world needs fantasy, not reality. We have enough reality today

Although it is a fantasy film, it's as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy their ticket to a cinema and get on a first-class flight and journey to Middle Earth.

I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism.

Fantasy, at its best, is balm for the soul. But it is faulty logic to assume that balm is necessarily mind-numbing anesthesia.