Dave Morris Quotes

I had a very active inner life as a kid. There's a good album or two worth of stuff that I can bring out on a rainy day if I have a loss for inspiration or whatever - even now.

I used to spend a lot of time alone as a kid, creating characters and doing voices in my room, and I thought to myself, I'm either going to go absolutely nuts, or I'm going to find something to put that energy into.

Boredom means you develop your own interior life.

I spent a lot of time in my head, but not like caring about what everybody else thought, just literally in my own world.

Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.

I'm in my mind a lot. I live there.

Sendak's 1963 classic 'Where The Wild Things Are' has long been a favorite of mine because of the creative imagery, fantastic adventures and, most of all, because of how this timeless story shows us that children need to be free to roam, explore and invent in order to understand their place in the world that surrounds them.

Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.

Music was like my first real toy. I was an only child for a while, and I was alone a lot of the time - and I liked it. I still like being alone.

It's fun wandering around other people's minds.

If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

It's a very hard thing for all of us to accept ourselves at all the different stages - the horrible side, the wonderful side, the adorable side - and who you are as a grownup. And then to bring what you learned as a child to that grownup: that is the magic of creativity.

I don't talk about consciousness. I talk about interiority.

When I was tiny, I was a real observer of human behaviour, and I knew I wanted to tell the human story, but I felt shy and unattractive and awkward.

Sometimes when you're an artist, you need to be in your own head; you need to stay in it to be able to get to a good place.

Honestly, I think I was in kindergarten. I remember seeing a play and realizing that was what I wanted to do. I remember always wanting to retreat to my room or somewhere private to play pretend by myself.

I'm a thinker and feeler and dreamer and explorer.

I played a lot of dress-up in my room. I really liked being alone. I had a lot of friends, but I had an only-child, live-in-my-head personality.

It is possibly not very helpful to our inner life to ponder a great deal on how the external world is reflected in our soul. By doing so, we do not get beyond a shadowy picture of the world of mental images in ourselves.

I always felt that everything that happened was incredibly exhilarating and massively puzzling at the same time. I can even remember, when I was six or seven, digging a hole beneath a tree. And I would go into this tomb, this cave that I had made, and would lie there, meditating, for hours.

Writing in my closet, it's a small space but it made a lot of room in my mind.

But I was a sensitive kid. A funny kid, and a perceptive one. There was a lot of time spent alone.