Patricia McCormick Quotes

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

That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.

I'd like to recover some of the strangeness and wonder of consideration of the future.

Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.

I was a great dreamer of day dreams.

Wide awake I can make my most fantastic dreams come true.

You know, Willie Wonka said it best: we are the makers of dreams, the dreamers of dreams.

I am quite a dreamer. I think we all are dreamers. We all don't like to live a practical life all the time. There is a thin line between our hopes and dreams.

It's good to have fantasies and creative fantasies, especially.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

As long as you keep one foot in the real world while the other foot's in a fairy tale, that fairy tale is going to seem kind of attainable.

I liked to pretend a lot. I thought I could be anything that I wanted.

Dreaming costs nothing, no?

As long as a thing is unknown, it belongs to us in a way that well-known things do not. For we have the opportunity to fill the empty, unknown spaces for ourselves, and in them there is room for imagination and for hope.

Dreaming, dreaming, dreaming -- weren't our dreams what gave us strength, hope, and desire?

Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.

I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.

I am a bit of a daydreamer.

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.

There's a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.

When nothing is sure, everything is possible.

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

What you possess is not what you jingle in the pockets of your memory, but the imaginings with which you fill the spaces of the future.