We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?
The cry that 'fantasy is escapist' compared to the novel is only an echo of the older cry that novels are 'escapist' compared with biography, and to both cries one should make the same answer: that freedom to invent outweighs loyalty to mere happenst...
I'm an escapist kind of writer.
I think it is good escapist entertainment even though it's bad.
Pop music for me was definitely escapist, but never studious.
When I was a teenager I was a total romantic escapist. My world was books.
The single biggest misconception about games is that they're an escapist waste of time.
I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.
People want to see big, escapist fare. They don't want to be challenged to think.
Guido: Enough of symbolism and these escapist themes of purity and innocence.
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.
My mom said I was an escapist at heart.... that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one
Happy are those who choose, those who accept being chosen, the handsome heroes, the handsome saints, the perfect escapists.
Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places.
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.
I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation. I'm an escapist kind of writer.
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...
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.
It may be escapist, but if I have a choice between watching the news or reading a book which gets me to see the world through different eyes, I will always choose the latter!
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 ...
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.
