Quotes About Escapism

They can keep their heaven. When I die, I'd sooner go to Middle Earth.

I have a certain avoidance of reality that makes fantasy an ideal choice for me.

There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer.

We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay. I believe we have always done this, used images to stand and understand what otherwise would be intolerable.

Hollywood was a fantasy world in more ways than one.

The problem with fantasy is the greatest benefit of fantasy: it prevents us from living in the present moment.

I loved underground comics and psychedelic art. I did like some supernatural horror, but mainly fantasy. I was into escapism.

Fantasy is literature for teenagers.

I've always loved fantasy. I think it's a great way to look at issues that we have in our own lives with a little bit of the pressure off, you know.

Humans need fantasy in order to be human.

I like fantasy. I've always been the kind of kid who likes to dream about other things I could be and exotic situations I could be in.

I think literature is somehow both a fantasy and a reality we should all get back to.

The problem with most genre fantasy is that it's not nearly fantastic enough. It's escapist, but it can't escape.

The line between outside and inside is fuzzier in fantasy. Maybe that's something people are looking for.

I always find myself pulled back into the fantasy genre, and I can't really explain it.

The fantasy gives you the courage to feel things.

I write fantasy because it's there. I have no other excuse for sitting down for several hours a day indulging my imagination. Daydreaming. Thinking up imaginary people, impossible places.

In the recession people are going to be looking even more at what movie stars are wearing, as it provides a fantasy outlet.

Life is boring without weed.

Alcohol is the cause and the solution to many of life's problems.

No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived as those we had regarded as not being lived at all : the days spent wholly with a favourite book

I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas - fat, drugged, and completely out of it.

The reason I drink is because when I'm sober I think I'm Eddie Fisher.

Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.