“ I'm sorry! I really am! I wanted to get out of this place! I want to live! I want to get away from here and never see it again! I hate everything about it!You will hate the next place, too, I said. Wh… Louis L'Amour
“ Thus he spent his whole life searching for his own truth, but it remained hidden to him because he had learned at a very young age to hate himself for what his mother had done to him. (...) But not on… Alice Miller
“ If fiction and fantasy books are escapism, then let an author write them so as to better equip the reader to face reality by the end. Brett Armstrong
“ The more unsettled and unbalanced we feel, the more quickly and recklessly we are likely to fall in love. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction. Orson Scott Card
“ I can breathe easier now that the appointments are behind me.I missed them all, through deliberate negligence,Having waited for the urge to go, which I knew wouldn’t come. Fernando Pessoa
“ To my mind, this embracing of what were unambiguously children's characters at their mid-20th century inception seems to indicate a retreat from the admittedly overwhelming complexities of modern exis… Alan Moore
“ Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those who ate fairy fruit, you can never be entirely content with the world… Neil Gaiman
“ Many have given up. They stay home and watch the TV screen, living on the earnings of their parents, cousins, bothers, or uncles, and only leave the house to go to the movies or to the nearest bar. Ho… James Baldwin
“ People talk about escapism as if it's a bad thing... Once you've escaped, once you come back, the world is not the same as when you left it. You come back to it with skills, weapons, knowledge you did… Neil Gaiman
“ All of a sudden his books, which had hitherto been merely a fond decoration and a means of letting his mind free itself from the grim routines of Broadmoor life, had become his most precious possessio… Simon Winchester
“ Whenever I come across someone speaking negatively about escapism or looking down on those who seek a temporary escape from this world, I can't help but look at them as absolute fools. To deny someone… Justin Allen
“ For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as do the ordinary people, but to fulfill it in its… Lawrence Durrell
“ I love stories that suck you in, that you can't stop reading because you are quite simply there. Sara Sheridan
“ I instantly dragged my fingers across a shelf of book spines, in love with each one already. Books were a safe place, a world apart from my own. No matter what had happened that day, that year, there… Kiera Cass
