Escapism Books Quotes

#1. Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported into other worlds entirely?

Laura Miller

#2. 'EastEnders' has been wonderful to me and it's no secret that it changed my life all of those years ago. I'll be so sad to leave Peggy behind; she's such a wonderful character to play. I have had the pleasure of working with a marvelous cast and crew and have made many lasting good friends.

Barbara Windsor

#3. Every book was a door; every page a new place to hide.

Drew Magary

#4. Can you smell it? The scent of new books. Unread adventures. Friends you haven't met yet, hours of magical escapism awaiting you.

Katarina Bivald

#5. The freedom to be someone else entirely and be different versions of something. That's what I loved and I loved watching movies and I loved watching television, I loved reading books. That kind of escapism into another world was my favorite thing.

Gwendoline Christie

#6. It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been an enormous shift in how it's done, but yet you can't put your finger on someone who actually did it.

Clifford Geertz

#7. Escapism isn't good or bad of itself. What is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to. I write from experience, since in my case I escaped to the idea that books could be really enjoyable, an aspect of reading that teachers had not hitherto suggested.

Terry Pratchett

#8. Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.

Alberto Manguel

#9. The appalling and shameful scene ("spectacle", Fr.) of disarray and illogicality that manifest itself in the thought and deeds of men, will no longer be seen, once these will possess an enlighten consciouness.

African Spir

#10. All books are escapism. They are life with the boring bits cut out.

Jean Chapman

#11. You know what's funny? I don't ever feel the need to escape. I have a strong marriage. I like my life. You hear about these guys having midlife crises - I don't see that happening to me.

Harry Connick Jr.

#12. Robby called me Porcupine because of how I wore my hair. I didn't mind. Everyone else called me Austin.
Austin Szerba.
It is Polish.

Andrew Smith

#13. For me books have always been an incredibly solid part of my life, both as escapism and simply as resource.

Jackie French

#14. I loved books, even as I loved the similar way opium had of transporting a mind elsewhere

Karina Cooper

#15. This particular book felt familiar, like an old friend. The characters drew me into their world, and I blocked out mine for the rest of the afternoon.

Rebecca Raisin

#16. A book is a place where my reality, escapism, hope, despair, love and death lie.

Nikita Dudani

#17. Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Ruth Rendell

#18. There has always been, for me, this other world, this second world to fall back on
a more reliable world in so far as it does not hide that its premise is illusion.

Graham Swift

#19. An escape can become escapism before we even know it. Books are wonderful things, but you can't live in someone else's story. You have to live your own story.

Jennifer Donnelly

#20. My books are just pure escapism for kids.

Dav Pilkey

#21. One of the biggest motivations for me with writing my books is to offer girls some escapism, especially girls who really need it, like I did.

Meg Cabot

#22. [When under stress I thought of] the books I had read [and applied] them to myself. I [imagined I was] one of the characters [and soon found myself] in made-up circumstances which were most agreeable to my inclinations.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#23. The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.

Ross Macdonald

#24. I never knew before, what such a love as you have made me feel, was; I did not believe in it; my Fancy was afraid of it, lest it should burn me up. But if you will fully love me, though there may be some fire, 'twill not be more than we can bear when moistened and bedewed with Pleasures.

John Keats

#25. One of the oldest mythological fables tells of Mercury playing at dice with Selene and winning from her the five days of the epact (thus totaling the 365 days of the year and harmonizing the lunar and solar calendars).

Richard Arnold Epstein

#26. 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

#27. Could he continue to maintain his sanity that long? He didn't know. That's why he was devouring two or three books a day - to remove himself every minute that he possibly could from the madness of this life.

Philip Roth

#28. There is a low mist in the woods
It is a good day to study lichens.

Henry David Thoreau