I love stories that suck you in, that you can't stop reading because you are quite simply there.
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.
Time spent doing whatever it is you do to escape your daily life would be better spent acquiring a life that needs no escape.
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...
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.
The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.
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...
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...
Haven't you noticed, too, on the part of nearly everyone you know, a growing rebellion against the present? And an increasing longing for the past? I have. Never before in all my long life have I hear...
It's all about escapism. That's essentially what all movies are about. It's a vicarious thrill.
