Quotes About Escapism

It wasn't just escapism, he persuaded himself. Sometimes the best ideas occur to you while your mind is occupied with something completely different. Pieces of the puzzle can suddenly fall into place.

Making people laugh is giving, and it's healing, too, when people can go up to the movies and forget about their problems. It's a good thing. That's why I want to work.

I would put books on par with chocolate, because a good book is delicious.

Sometimes I only hope to make a good popcorn movie.

What, exactly, is the happiness that can be earned by turning away from reality?

Promise me one thing: don't take me home until I'm drunk - very drunk indeed.

But when reality was hopeless, fantasy became more and more necessary.

Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.

Walt is dead. And, after a couple of hours at Epcot, you'll wish you were, too.

Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.

I want a new liver to replace my heart.""Um, why?""Because then I could drink more and care less.

When dreaming is better than reality we're livingWhat's the sense of waking up in a nightmare?

My people, we stay indoors. We have keyboards. We have darkness.

Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.

The imagination can be happy in places where the whole man is not.

A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.

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

... fantasy is not practice for what is real—fantasy is the opiate of women.

People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.

My books are my friends. They take me on journeys to places I'll never travel. My friends know what I think, what I feel, what I long for.

And if they're fictional, it is entirely acceptable to cheat on fictional men with other fictional men.

The industry thrives by selling escapist fun at prices the middle class can afford. The mega-ships circling the Caribbean are essentially floating American hotels, freed by foreign flagging from American labor laws. Filipinos work seventy hours a week at less than the minimum wage to bring Americans the blessings of cheap mai tais.

Marco lives in a fantasy world, one that's more interesting and more fun than reality. That's the definition of being insane, surely?" said my son, Raul "I suppose so," I said. "It's like Don Quixote.

Writing novels allows the novelist to spend much of his time in a fictional world, which is really the only or at least the most bearable place to be.