Willard Wigan Quotes

To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as really children as I was myself a child.

When I was a kid, Santa, the Tooth Fairy, my stuffed animals - they were real. There is the tremendous suspension of disbelief that you have as a child. It's harder as an adult.

Many children fly like birds, guess other people's dreams, and speak with ghosts, but ... they all outgrow it when they lose their innocence.

As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.

Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid?

When I was a little girl, I loved theater a lot and I was always playing and making my own worlds.

I am always fascinated by the way kids create their own world. That is something I am very attentive to anywhere I go.

I was always a 'let's pretend' kind of kid.

There's a great deal of child left in me and acting is fun. It's a make believe thing.

The really best acting is children in a playground or in a backyard. They're just lost in their imagination. The backyard isn't a pirate ship or a jungle, in the same way that the soundstage isn't Shambala.

Fairy tales were important to me. Aren't they for any kid? My sister says I spent a good five years of my youth convinced I would grow up to be a princess.

You know when you're a child and your imagination is limitless and you really believe in magic? I thought I had super powers.

I was the kind of girl who'd peep through her bedroom keyhole to check if her dolls were moving.

I love fantasy; I love imagination - that's the inner child in me.

The child race is fresh, eager, interested, innocent, imaginative, healthy and full of faith, where the adult race, more often than not, is stale, spiritually debauched, unimaginative, unhealthy, and without faith.

Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow, - attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.

If the land of make believe is inside your heart it will never leave.

We're all just big kids. That's all we are. We are artistes. We grew up wanting to be part of the fantasy of the fairy tales and the stories.

Why are you messing with the fantasy? We know about the reality. Don't ruin the fantasy, OK?

Because nothing is as good as you can imagine it. No one is as beautiful as she is in your head. Nothing is as exciting as your fantasy.

Oh, grown-ups cannot understand, And grown-ups never will, How short the way to fairyland Across the purple hill.

I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.

The state of childhood resonates with life inside a fantasy novel. If you have no control over how you spend large chunks of your day, or are at the mercy of flawed giant beings, then the desire to bend the laws of the world by magic is strong and deep.

Long ago, I became more interested in the real world than in make-believe.

I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends.