Quotes About Dreams

Insights don't usually arrive at my desk, but go into notebooks when I'm on the move. Or half-asleep.

There is a fundamental notion at the core of American identity that, in this country, any little boy or girl can grow up to be president.

I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality.

I remember a conversation with my parents about who the people on the TV were, and learning they were actors and they acted out this story and just thinking that was the most fantastic notion, and that's what I want to do.

The notion of 'building a career' had never been heard or dreamed of when I was young.

The whole notion of never growing up is incredibly intense and emotional.

The only reason I wanted to go to college was so I could go to Notre Dame, and so after I graduate from Notre Dame I could go to heaven.

People didn't understand my passion. I dreamt big. I saw myself playing at Notre Dame. I saw myself in a classroom.

I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody.

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.

I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist.

The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being president of the United States - it's not gonna happen.

I was one of those kids who never wanted to be anything but a novelist. And I don't know a lot of people who truly live the life that they dreamed of.

When I was a child, I loved making stories, so I thought maybe I would be a novelist.

I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought... I thought... maybe, one day, I could be one of them.

As a kid I wanted to write science fiction, and I was never without a book. Later I really got into being a scientist and never thought I'd be writing novels.

When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired.

I was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels.

When you're a kid, you think 'Oh, it's so great. I'm going to go to Hollywood. I'm going to go to Broadway.' For a long time, it was such a novelty.

If I hit the lotto, I would be nowhere near the road. But I got bills to pay.

I want to be the number one songwriter-producer guy of all time.

I was always extremely creative. I was very artistic and never strong with numbers or science. I wanted to be an artist or a fashion designer. I wanted to be something that allowed for a lot of imagination.

Count the dreams of your mind; if the numbers of the dreams exceeds the number of achievements, you are young.

Theater was always in the backdrop. Nursing was a way to pay the bills. I wasn't a nurse; I had a nursing agency.