Quotes About Fantasy

You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.

Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone.

It's all make believe, isn't it?

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife.... I guess I am a fantasy.

Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.

It was more fun dreaming about being a movie star than actually being one.

Then I woke up and the reality of the dream was stronger than the reality of the day.

The exotic and the erotic ideals go hand in hand, and this fact also contributes another proof of a more or less obvious truth - that is, that a love of the exotic is usually an imaginative projection of a sexual desire.

she kept hoping Mulder and Scully would kiss each other well and good. Having a relationship vicariously through fantasy and excellent scripting was all Aggie had at the moment - and to be honest, it wasn't all that bad. Her imagination was always better than reality...

In no way did I allow reality as it was to intrude on reality as I wanted it to be.

Every Anglophile has his own private England which is, of course, unrecognizable to the English.

but writing as "Lewis Carroll," had Alice go through the looking

Imagine someone in a skeleton costume. The costume is innocuous inasmuch as it is mere fantasy of dead bones over a living body of flesh. But, of course, there is a skeleton beneath that living body of flesh. Just as the skeleton is a costume over the flesh, the flesh is a costume over the skeleton. Flesh dies and reveals the skeleton, as if the skeleton is the death to come that is already inside the living flesh.

If this is a dream, I'm begging you, don't ever let them wake me.

Utopianism substitutes glorious predictions and unachievable promises for knowledge, science, and reason, while laying claim to them all.

Fleshing out a world, creating and playing a host of secondary character, arbitrating rules and crafting scenarios can be difficult tasks. Nonetheless, the chance to make a dream come alive is well worth the trouble. When the other characters carve their niches in the world, you give them the world itself.

A writer's refuge is imagination. Therein lies the ability to create a new world and bring order to chaos.

When I read, I visit other worlds. When I write, I create other worlds.

We are a species hungry for illusion. A powerful illusion not only convinces us it's real, it becomes more meaningful to us than reality.

Spiderman and Superman were closeted bodybuilders: they wore bodysuits that decently covered their flesh and masks that disguised their identity; their lives were rigidly divided between body-less bourgeois respectability and muscular super-hero fantasy; they led a 'double-life' that no one knew about and were never to be seen at the gym.

Sex is the theory; porn is the practice.

Here's where my pastoral fantasy ran aground: the pound of organic butter cost six dollars and fifty cents. The ceiling for buying my way into grace was about five bucks.

Pino shrugged. "Maybe he liked the sound of it. Pino Lella." Mimo snorted. "You do live in a fantasy world." They

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.