Ransom Riggs Quotes

Art as a fantasy has been one of my earliest experiences. I suppose a lot of my childhood was a fantasy that involved getting away from things I didn't like. Fortunately it had some relationship to reality so that later I was able to, to some extent, act as I imagined I might.

I am pretty sure that all young human beings have, at one time or another in their growing-up, been actors. They have used their imaginations to carry them away from painful or confusing situations... have imagined themselves to be more powerful or beautiful or brave or loving than they are.

A child who has never fantasized about having other parents is seriously lacking in imagination.

I spent my childhood in an imaginary world - probably because I needed an escape. I think that's one of the reasons people have imaginations - because they can't maintain existence here.

I had a very happy childhood, but I still used my imagination as a leisure resort.

That's why I'm an actress - escaping into a world.

As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.

I love to fantasize still, as I did as a little boy. If I see a movie, I want to fantasize about what it's all about.

As kids, we lived in this magical world and roamed free in the gardens. I was obsessed with 'Alice in Wonderland.' My dad cut the hedges so that they started shorter and grew taller, so I could run up and down and feel like I was shrinking.

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

When I was 35 I realized that I was still thinking a lot about what it would be like to go to Narnia. To really go - not just in a daydream, or in a children's book, but what it would actually feel like, physically, psychologically, every other way. The idea was haunting me.

The fantasy gives you the courage to feel things.

I mainly let my imagination be my reality. Fantasy is my reality.

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.

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

I didn't jump a lot of trees because I didn't like heights. I liked getting a mirror and walking around with it facing the sky. I'd imagine I was walking in the tops of the trees and falling into the sky, or walking up the stairs whilst going down.

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.

With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.

If I need a cause for celebration, Or a comfort I can use to ease my mind, I rely on my imagination, And I dream of an imaginary time.

I like being able to play make believe as my job. I think I played make-believe growing up a little too long - probably to an inappropriate age. I played make-believe until I was, like, 13 and probably should have been doing something else. But other than that, it's fun to be able to have to learn about different people.

All kids, I think, are creative, but they get it pounded out of them in school.

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

It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with these

Some of us awake in the night with strange phantasms of enchanted hills and gardens, of fountains that sing in the sun, of golden cliffs overhanging murmuring seas, of plains that stretch down to sleeping cities of bronze andstone, and of shadowy companies of heroes that ride caparisoned white horsesalong the edges of thick forests, and then we know that we have looked backthrough the ivory gates into that world of wonder that was ours, before we were wise and unhappy.

there is no such thing as fantasy unrelated to reality