Escapist Quotes

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)
I don't see why escapist literature shouldn't also be a work of art. View quote
P. D. James
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. View quote
Irvine Welsh
I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music. View quote
Thom Yorke
Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness. View quote
Bell hooks
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. View quote
Allen Toussaint
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. View quote
Eric Stoltz
It's time to start recognizing that not all escapist entertainment is created equal. And that some of it isn't even entertainment. Miss March is, to use the vernacular of the escapist moviegoer, the biggest pile of crap I've seen in ages. View quote
Stephanie Zacharek
Stop being an escapist! Stop being a surface liver who stays right in the froth of the surface. There are millions of these people, and they never find anything really worthwhile. Be willing to face life squarely and get down beneath the surface of life where the verities and realities are to be found. View quote
Peace Pilgrim
We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography? View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
You want loud, dumb, skillful, escapist entertainment? Twister works. You want to think? Think twice about seeing it. (Roger Ebert)
The problem with most genre fantasy is that it's not nearly fantastic enough. It's escapist, but it can't escape. View quote
China Miéville
Perhaps it is the positive knowledge that humans now possess the means to destroy their whole planet, the fear that they have in this way themselves become the gods, dreadfully charged with their own continued existence, that has made comic-book and movie myth escapist. View quote
Nadine Gordimer
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. I think people who make movies and have invested a lot of money in them, get frightened that if they challenge an audience they are going to repel them. And I think the opposite, it's really true. It takes confidence and courage to know that and then commit to it. View quote
Claire Danes
He's an escapist. He wants to cultivate his interior garden. View quote
Nathanael West
The single biggest misconception about games is that they're an escapist waste of time. View quote
Jane McGonigal
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. View quote
Brooke Nevin
Pop music for me was definitely escapist, but never studious. View quote
Siouxsie Sioux
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. View quote
Tom Shales
I'm an escapist kind of writer. View quote
Maeve Binchy
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)
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. View quote
Ryan Reynolds
Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
I think it is good escapist entertainment even though it's bad. View quote
Rob Zombie
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. View quote
Anne Hathaway