Lana Del Rey Quotes

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

With my writing, I can still play inside an enchanted castle or live inside an old fort. I can run from ghosts or ride dolphins any day of the week.

With any kind of sci-fi, the imagination continues, and the world exists, and you create that in your own mind, and it lives in you.

I loved the world of imagination.

Most children tell themselves stories in which they figure as powerful figures, enjoying the pleasures not only of the adult world as they conceive it but of a world of wonders unlike dull reality.

Everything I've done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

I've always felt more comfortable in fantasy. Fantasy has felt more real to me at times. Drawing was an immediate outlet for that: to create. It's been my ability to create my own world.

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

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.

Tonight, I've finally learned to tell fantasy from reality. And, knowing the difference, I choose fantasy.

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

Daydreaming subverts the world.

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

I believe that fantasy in the meaning of imagination is very important. We shouldn't stick too close to everyday reality but give room to the reality of the heart, of the mind, and of the imagination.

I am living permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality.

And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.

Man lives by imagination.

What happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for that.

Compared with games, reality is disconnected.

I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

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

I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.

Fantasy for me as a kid was real, and I had a fantasy about what life was, whether it was sort of wicked and dire, or wholly normal, or whatever. Anything really close to home is not, it seems to me, what a good book should be about.