Alison McGhee Quotes

I could invent another world. I'm not terribly keen on this one.

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

My thoughts and I were of another world.

Daydreaming subverts the world.

I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow.

My portal to another world was fiction.

Personally I kept my feelings out of it and created a fantasy. That's the process of going through this world being beautiful.

Another world must surely exist somewhere one where she would be known in some deep way that was far beyond words.

A curious thing happened: the terrains of England began to impinge on my consciousness, altering, then effacing, the world outside the library window… I was wrapped in a pleasurable dreaminess. I was in a better place. If true life existed elsewhere, then I had almost found it.

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.

In my headphones, I led a life of romance and incident and intrigue, none of which had anything to do with the world outside my Walkman.

Behind the newspaper Julian was withdrawing into the inner compartment of his mind where he spent most of his time. This was a kind of mental bubble in which he established himself when he could not bear to be a part of what was going on around him. From it he could see out and judge but in it he was safe from any kind of penetration from without. It was the only place where he felt free of the general idiocy of his fellows. His mother had never entered it but from it he could see her with absolute clarity.

Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.

Sometimes I feel that a more rational explanation for all that has happened during my lifetime is that I am still only thirteen years old, reading Jules Verne or H. G. Wells, and have fallen asleep.

Science fiction annoyed me because it was like, "Why is the world as it is not enough for you?"

There is a world inside the world.

I lived too much in my head instead of the real world.

It is obvious that an imagined #‎ world , however different it may be from the real one, must have something - a form - in common with it.

I like making films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost into another world.

I was a neophyte in another world [in 1954].

If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch; or else your contempt for the world is mere hypocrisy and funk.

There is another world for all that live and move-a better one!

The imagination can be happy in places where the whole man is not.

If you are lying in a tent in the Congo jungle, you don't want to be reading about rainforest biology. You want to be in a distant world.

If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream.