#escapism

People talk about escapism as though it's something nasty but escapism is wonderful! ↗

— Margaret Forster

#escapism #nasty #people #something #talk

Bond was escapism, but not meant to be imitated in real life. ↗

— Roger Moore

#escapism #imitated #life #meant #meant to be

I sell escapism. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

#i #sell

You break through the veil whenever you strap on a sword or chant the ancient verses. You escape when you write a poem or a tale that brings beauty into the world. You are set free whenever you love—even those who believe you’re crazy. ↗

— Jef Murray

#escapism #expression #freedom #oloris #art

All through my life what I've loved doing is watching movies. I love the escapism of film, I love stories. So it is incredible to be able to be in them as much as I am, to see them from the first stitch in a costume to the end product. ↗

— Keira Knightley

#am #costume #doing #end #end product

I've loved the escapism of being another person, slipping into another character for a little while. ↗

— Jeri Ryan

#being #character #escapism #i #into

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

#children #escapism #fantasy #reading #reality

I think escapism is really important. ↗

— Jordana Brewster

#i #i think #important #really #think

I sleep all day. Noises flit around the house- garbage truck in the alley, rain, tree rapping against the bedroom window. I sleep. I inhabit sleep firmly, willing it, wielding it, pushing away dreams, refusing, refusing. Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion. [...] It is afternoon, it is night, it is morning. Everything is reduced to this bed, this endless slumber that makes the days into one day, makes time stop, stretches and compacts time until it is meaningless. ↗

— Audrey Niffenegger

#sleep #dreams

Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#fiction #on-fiction #life