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Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places. -- Lois McMaster Bujold
I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music. -- Thom Yorke
This is who I am Escapist Paradise Seeker Farewell, time to fly Out of sight Out of time Away from all lies -- Tuomas Holopainen
I'm an escapist kind of writer. -- Maeve Binchy
We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography? -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Pop music for me was definitely escapist, but never studious. -- Siouxsie Sioux
I think it is good escapist entertainment even though it's bad. -- Rob Zombie
The single biggest misconception about games is that they're an escapist waste of time. -- Jane McGonigal
When I was a teenager I was a total romantic escapist. My world was books. -- Colin Wilson
People want to see big, escapist fare. They don't want to be challenged to think. -- Harvey Weinstein
I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation. I'm an escapist kind of writer. -- Maeve Binchy
Television's escapist programming naturally continues to endorse living beyond one's means as the time-tested American Way and rarely depicts families or individuals wracked by the pressures and miseries that come with excess. -- Tom Shales
I think horror films in the past maybe touched on social themes having to do with whatever era in which they were made, but in the end, it's definitely an escapist form of entertainment. -- Brooke Nevin
I think there's escapist moviemaking, and we want to be captivated and taken away. If it's done right, you can craft an incredible film. There have been superhero films that I think are brilliant pieces of art. -- Ryan Reynolds
I think myself I ought to be shot for writing such nonsense... But it's unquestionably good escapist literature, and I think I should rather like it if I were sitting in an air-raid shelter or recovering from flu. -- Georgette Heyer
My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up - not to be escapist but to take you out of misery. -- Allen Toussaint
I'm an escapist. I'm not a planner; I've never made a decision about anything in my life. The good thing about Africa is that you can escape forever. You can do what you want without someone looking over your shoulder. -- Peter Beard
It just seems like the most successful, iconic love stories are not so easy or escapist. I think the ones that stay with us and resonate are full of conflict, discord and misunderstandings 'cause that's what makes drama happen or tension even if it's a comedy. -- Claire Danes
The writer must face the fact that ordinary lives are what most people live most of the time, and that the novel as a narration of the fantastic and the adventurous is really an escapist plot; that aesthetically, the ordinary, the banal, is what you must deal with. -- John Updike
I have been called many things in my life, but if there has been but one constant, one barb, one arrow flung my way time after time, it is the accusation that I am, in essence, nothing more than an escapist. Apparently this is bad, suspect, possibly even un-American. -- J. Maarten Troost
Minimalism? It is something I appreciate as an art form but leave to others - unless you count a collection of warhorse-workwear Yves Saint Laurent trouser suits. Maybe my penchant for hippie-deluxe eccentricity came from an escapist dream of a different world. It was tough being a working mom in the 1970s. -- Suzy Menkes
We immerse ourselves in escapist mass entertainment, such as 'reality T.V.' programs. We support fanatical politicians and preachers. Our politicians, in turn, support dictators and tyrants in other countries, all in the name of 'security' and 'stability'. And we arm ourselves to the teeth, and pray to God to be saved. -- Brendan Myers
Escapism, we are led to believe, is evidence of a deficiency in character, a certain failure of temperament, and like so many -isms, it is to be strenuously avoided. 'How do you expect to get ahead?,' people ask. But the question altogether misses the point. The escapist doesn't want to get ahead. He simply wants to get away. -- J. Maarten Troost
It just seems to me that the world's kind of a mess, and the more messy it gets, the more interested I am in escapist fare. Having a good time is something that isn't about the war in Iraq or the Asian flu or the Kyoto protocol - things that are horribly depressing to consider in our real lives. I'm eager to get away from them. -- Eric Stoltz
Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory -- J. R. R. Tolkien
I don't see why escapist literature shouldn't also be a work of art. -- P. D. James
Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness. -- bell hooks
We have to accept as a society that games are not escapist. They really do change us. -- Jane McGonigal
My mom said I was an escapist at heart.... that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one -- Amy Plum
The problem with most genre fantasy is that it's not nearly fantastic enough. It's escapist, but it can't escape. -- China Mieville
Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape? -- J. R. R. Tolkien
What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is the escapist mentality becomes prevalent, giving birth to the syndrome of economic refugees. -- Sunday Adelaja
Fake realism is the escapist literature of our time. And probably the ultimate escapist reading is that masterpiece of total unreality, the daily stock market report. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
The Sims is an escapist vehicle for people who want to escape to where they already are, which is why I thought this game was made precisely for me. -- Chuck Klosterman
I like to watch MTV for escapist pleasure, but when I saw Snooki, I saw my twin. I couldn't lose myself in the show anymore because there I was. -- Anne Hathaway
The neurogenetic meaning of the cultural revolution is now clear. Neurochemicals are designed to be pursuitist, not escapist. They open the nervous system to the possibilities of future post-terrestrial evolution. -- Timothy Leary
You can't just have stuff that is free and escapist, you have to have stuff that is confrontational as well. You need stuff that is mystical but you need the realism too. -- Irvine Welsh
The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a fool, the artist an escapist, the man of vision a criminal. -- Henry Miller
All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don't want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don't think art should be escapist. That's a waste of time. -- Edward Albee
Escape into the dream. Escape, a key thing charged against these drugs, that they are for escapists. I think the people who make this charge hardly dare dream to what degree they are escapist. -- Terence McKenna
People do accuse me of being just decorative or an escapist - well I am. That's what I do. I am other things as well. I transcend the song and give it a different meaning. -- Klaus Nomi
I am fine, though it is hard to think of what kind of work to make at this point, other than decorative, escapist or abstract. I suppose I'll explore one or all of these things. -- Cindy Sherman

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