Lisa See Quotes

The ability to suspend reality and go into a make-believe world can be really, really difficult if there's something really big going on.

Reality depresses me. I need to find fantasy worlds and escape in them.

All the mind's activity is easy if it is not subjected to reality.

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.

Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.

Ironing is a great diversion from the reality you don't want to face.

We live in our fantasies and endure our realities.

I convinced myself I hadn't seen anything, ... I had done this many times before ... I was adept at erasing reality.

The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.

Most people cant' deal with reality, but indulge heavily in fantasy and fear.

I don't really deal with the attention I receive to be honest. I build up a fantasy world around me that I inhabit. I cherry pick elements of literature, music, film, history and art, then weave them together to construct a fantasy reality to live in. It doesn't always work out though, I got evicted from my own fantasy once, which was quite embarrassing.

Any mental activity is easy if it need not be subjected to reality.

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.

All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I've gone off the top, into total fantasy.

Sometimes I'm stressed and I'm sick of things and I need to forget about them for a while, so in Harry Potter you're taken to this wonderful imaginary world where everything is so different.

I think escapism is really important.

I think I spend most of my time not living in reality, actually.

I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.

We find ourselves attached to fantasy worlds sometimes when it's hard to process what's going on in our world. It's reassuring to see the good winning.

I think when people are scared, they like to see movies where the scares are not real.

Reading was my escape growing up in Ohio. Both of my parents lost their jobs when I was a teen, and it was hard. But I always had my books. Reading gave me a way of living different lives.

Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.

I feel like Mills and Boon saved my life. It was a way of not living. I read a lot of other books as well, but they were definitely the best for just switching my brain off, not having to deal with reality.

I have a hyper-active imagination, my mind tends to jump around a little, and I have some trouble between fantasy and reality.

For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing.