Will Self Quotes

I try to live instinctively. And I guess I've always enjoyed living in a fantasy world, daydreaming. I really do think that dreaming and fantasies are very important to the human psyche and the soul. That's why I want to act.

I would sing to my Beanie Babies, and I sort of created this alternate universe where I was famous, and there were thousands of people that I was singing to.

If I ever buy a house and redo the bathroom, I'm putting urinals in there.

Every now and then, I like to take a break from the visual arts and play a few songs on guitar. I don't play them for anyone.

I always needed that extra fantasy world. I had to have another world I could be in at the same time.

The castle-building habit, the day-dreaming habit - how it grows! what a luxury it becomes; how we fly to its enchantments at every idle moment, how we revel in them, steep our souls in them, intoxicate ourselves with their beguiling fantasies - oh, yes, and how soon and how easily our dream-life and our material life become so intermingled and so fused together that we can't quite tell which is which, anymore.

Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the individuals who compose the talkers instead of the writers in society.

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.

He who passes not his days in the realm of dreams is the slave of the days.

Because the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination. The child must have a secret world in which live things that never were. It is necessary that she believe. She must start out believing in things not of this world. Then when the world becomes too ugly for living in, the child can reach back and live in her imagination.

Let me go on sleeping and I will lose myself in palaces of sand, and all the fantasies that I've been keeping will make the empty hours easier to stand.

I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do. To dream, to live in the world of dreams. But it doesn’t last forever. Wakefulness always comes to take me back.

I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.

My head is my favorite swimming pool.

This is what happens when you live in dreams, he thought: you dream this and you dream that and you sleep right through your life.

In a wonderland they lie, dreaming as the days go by

I have a certain avoidance of reality that makes fantasy an ideal choice for me.

Someone once wrote that in between the lives we lead and the lives we fantasize about living is the place in our heads where most of us actually live.

I kind of tend to do most of my adventures in my mind.

You can linger too long in your dreams.

On the wings of fancy, gentle readers, bear yourselves into the mid-air, where by imagination you may form a large stupendous castle.

Lying in bed, I abandoned the facts again and was back in Ambrosia.

I was a shy ugly kid who led a big fantasy life. I thought I was an angel sent from heaven, to cure polio. When Dr. Salk did that I was really pissed off.

If you can tune into the fantasy life of an 11-year-old girl, you can make a fortune in this business.

It's fun to pretend you're a little kid, you get to use your imagination and live in a world that's not real.