Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.
It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.
Sometimes Geraldine feels like she can drive forever. Maybe that’s partially why she took a job at Milo General Motors. Driving is the best means of escape that the human race has, at least, that’s he...
Time spent doing whatever it is you do to escape your daily life would be better spent acquiring a life that needs no escape.
Judging others is too often escapism dressed in the garb of righteous indignation, whereby I dutifully point out in others that which I probably should be pointing out in myself.
Often the most tricky questions are the ones we secretly know the answers of.What are you running from?What are you waiting for?
To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety tha...
Art helps you connect to the world, not escape from it. That is the difference between art and entertainment.
I had drunk myself to oblivion,Stepped from the room into a dreamless slumber,My consciousness had parted ways,Taking a well-earned vacation.
There's no real objection to escapism, in the right places... We all want to escape occasionally. But science fiction is often very far from escapism, in fact you might say that science fiction is esc...
The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.