Keith Waterhouse Quotes

I had a very happy childhood, but I still used my imagination as a leisure resort.

The minute I forget to balance reality with the fantasy, I'm going back to Virginia.

I love to fantasize still, as I did as a little boy. If I see a movie, I want to fantasize about what it's all about.

Escapism or nostalgia, for me, is not about having a terrible life and trying to get away via imaginary ideas or something.

The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination.

In any case, suffice it to say I enjoyed hearing about faraway places. I had stocked up a whole store of these places, like a bear getting ready for hibernation. I'd close my eyes, and streets would materialize, rows of houses take shape. I could hear people's voices, feel the gentle, steady rhythm of their lives, those people so distant, whom I'd probably never know.

When I was 35 I realized that I was still thinking a lot about what it would be like to go to Narnia. To really go - not just in a daydream, or in a children's book, but what it would actually feel like, physically, psychologically, every other way. The idea was haunting me.

Let me go on sleeping and I will lose myself in palaces of sand, and all the fantasies that I've been keeping will make the empty hours easier to stand.

In a wonderland they lie, dreaming as the days go by

I’d much rather pretend I’m somewhere else, and any time I open the pages of a book, that happens.

A child who has never fantasized about having other parents is seriously lacking in imagination.

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

I've always been a daydreamer. When the other kids were playing, I was listening to the roar at Yankee Stadium - I was always attracted to the roar of the crowd.

I think escapism is really important.

And what I like about it is it makes me happy and I think it makes a lot of people happy to go to the movies and to not think about the problems of the day or the problems of tomorrow or the yesterday and just go on for the ride and have the fun of losing oneself in a fantasy.

I love imagining being someone else in another time.

I had a strong propensity, which I still have, to be invisible. In grade school, I'd try to disappear and become formless. I lived in a very imaginary world. I loved poetry and wrote my first novel when I was 9. It was about a little girl and the people she met in the woods.

I don't travel much; I just stay at home and imagine weird places.

I have a lot of fantasy.

I try to live instinctively. And I guess I've always enjoyed living in a fantasy world, daydreaming.

I can remember watching 'Lord of the Rings' and being truly regretful that I wasn't a being in that world.

I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It's best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

It's fun to pretend you're good at something you know you wouldn't be good at in real life.

When I was about 8, I used to go into one of the rooms in the mansion, and I would open a magazine like the 'Ladies Home Journal,' and I would see these characters on the pages and then become them, talking back and forth.

I used to pretend that my Peugeot driving to the gym in the rain in Dublin was a Ferrari on the Vegas strip.