“Because I lacked a stable and nurturing home environment, I sought escape. As I mentioned before, my escape often took the form of experimentation.”

“...When people lose their way and lack a real purpose for living they often fall back on certain forms of escapism as a form of self-soothing...”

“I was trying to find a reason for having had to escape from the place that was my home. To convince myself of my choices, I had to make it a place that everyone should want to escape from.”

“I read books, but I do it because I want to - because it's like an escape in my head, like being with you.”

“Fiction is a vehicle to escapism. But fantasy, in my opinion, is escapism in its most vibrant and enchanting form.”

“There's no real objection to escapism, in the right places... We all want to escape occasionally. But science fiction is often very far from escapism, in fact you might say that science fiction is escape into reality... It's a fiction which does concern itself with real issues: the origin of man; our future. In fact I can't think of any form of literature which is more concerned with real issues, reality.”