David Nicholls Quotes

Reality doesn't interest me.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

The real world is much smaller than the imaginary

Everything is only a dream.

I think both you and I, we live in a world of fiction and stories.

I was very much provoked. Of course, I knew there are no fairies; but that needn't prevent my thinking there is.

There are other relations besides reality, which the mind is capable of grasping and which also are primary, like chance, illusion, the fantastic, the dream.

I like imagination -- and the way I think things could be, had been, or should be -- better than reality.

"Well, it's no use your talking about waking him," said Tweedledum, "when you're only one of the things in his dream. You know very well you're not real."

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . .

Well, I really want to encourage a kind of fantasy, a kind of magic. I love the term magic realism, whoever invented it – I do actually like it because it says certain things. It's about expanding how you see the world. I think we live in an age where we're just hammered, hammered to think this is what the world is. Television's saying, everything's saying 'That's the world.' And it's not the world. The world is a million possible things.

[D]oes the real world have any more substance than visions and hallucinations when we're having them? At any given moment, what's happening in our minds is all and everything that happens.

I'm not interested in an imaginary world.

When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists.

The relationship between the imagined and the real is more complicated than people imagine.

Compared with games, reality is disconnected.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.

Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.

Movies are different from real life.

Reality is a dirty word for me, I know it isn't for most people, but I am not interested. There's too much of it about.