Erica Jong Quotes

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.

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

To wear dreams on one's feet is to begin to give a reality to one's dreams.

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

The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.

Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but I made them up.'

I've only wanted paper and beautiful colors. It was my dream, and it still is my dream. And books. They're all I need, and the rest I can do without.

I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.

I don't remember my dreams too much. I hardly have ever gotten ideas from nighttime dreams. But I love daydreaming and dream logic and the way dreams go.

A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.

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

Fantasy for me as a kid was real, and I had a fantasy about what life was, whether it was sort of wicked and dire, or wholly normal, or whatever. Anything really close to home is not, it seems to me, what a good book should be about.

My imagination was no competition for nature.

Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.

Everything you can imagine is real.

Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.

Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.

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.

Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.

My photographs are a celebration of life, fun and the beautiful. They are a world that doesn't exist. A fantasy. Freedom is real. There are no rules. The life I wish I was living.

I believed totally in the possibilities implied in the series. I never thought of it as fantasy. Far from it.

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

Dreams have always expanded our understanding of reality by challenging our boundaries of the real, of the possible.