Richard Wright Quotes

Gilligan's Island is wherever you want it to be in your mind.

When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you're suffering in.

The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.

Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.

Few pleasures are greater than knowing you can close your door, ignore the world and create your own.

The Zhuangzi is very good on telling us how the nonhuman-made world can enter into who we are more deeply than at the level of answering to our current interests. If the environment can shape who we are, it can shape our very interests, leading us to recognize things, events, and processes that are of genuine value and that we have not previously recognized as such.

I may not be able to change the world I see around me, but I can change the way I see the world within me.

I hate to recreate the whole world into my imagination.

I like the immaterial world. I like to live among thoughts and images of the past and the possible, and even of the impossible, now and then.

I began to wonder whether anything truly existed, whether reality wasn't an unformed and gelatinous substance only half-captured by my senses....If that were true, each of us was living in absolute isolation. The thought terrified me. I was consoled by the idea that I could take that gelatin and mold it to create anything I wanted...At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of the imagination had stronger and more lasting contours than the blurred realm of the flesh-and-blood creatures around me.

Writers are lucky. Whatever the mood, no matter the longing, the writer can use his words to connect himself to any world he wishes to visit.

When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do.

Don't you know that everybody's got a Fairyland of their own?

Princess Bibesco delighted in a semi-ideal world - a world which, though having a counterpart in her experience, was to a great extent brought into being by her own temperament and, one might say, flair.

I am not in the world. The world is in me.

Bring into play the almighty power within you, so that on the stage of life you can fulfill your high destined role.

There are worlds of possibility inherent in our consciousness that can facilitate our own transformation. What future have you imagined for yourself?

I'm creating an imaginary — it's always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.

Creative fantasy, because it is mainly trying to do something else ... may open your hoard and let all the locked things fly away like cage-birds.

We live in condensations of our imagination

Every time I close my eyes, it's like a dark paradise. No one compares to you, but there's no you, except in my dreams tonight

We can redream this world and make the dream come real. Human beings are gods hidden from themselves.

When we are writing, or painting, or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions, and are opened to a wider world, where colors are brighter, sounds clearer, and people more wondrously complex than we normally realize.

It's certainly true that when I was young, writing seemed to me so important that I would have sacrificed almost anything to it ... Because I thought of the world in which I wrote -- the world I created -- as somehow much more enormously alive than the world I was actually living in.

Every poet, be his outward lot what it may, finds himself born in the midst of prose; h e has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal.