William S. Burroughs Quotes

That's part of fiction, creating a world better than the one you live in.

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

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

The best I do, if I'm just playing around and riffing in a fantasy world, and then I'll write something down. Hopefully I write it down.

I mainly let my imagination be my reality. Fantasy is my reality.

Don't we want to escape our real world and go into something larger than that, simpler than that, more beautiful or darker?

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

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.

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.

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.

I put myself into another world and another identity, and I design not for how my life is but for how my imaginary life is.

My portal to another world was fiction.

I just love that feeling of being in another world, of creating characters and watching where they go.

What do my science fiction stories have in common with pornography? Fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world, I'm told.

I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.

The great thing about writing is, if you don't like the world, we'll create a different one.

One of the beauties of being an artist is that you can create a whole new world, with circumstances that are better in your invented world than they are in the real world.

It was a kingdom of dreams — a place where things would be just the way I wanted them to be.

When you write, you want to get rid of the world, don’t you? Of course you do. When you’re writing, you’re creating your own worlds.

It's not magic that takes us to another world - it's storytelling.

Because we are human, because we are bound by gravity and the limitations of our bodies, because we live in a world where the news is often bad and the prospects disturbing, there is a need for another world somewhere, a world where Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers live.

Most of the characters I play are heavily engulfed in some sort of fantasy world.

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

I'm not interested in an imaginary world.

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather be in.