David Ebershoff Quotes

I love imagining being someone else in another time.

It's always refreshing to step into another time.

It's not so much the dressing up, but I love the idea of moving and existing in a different time.

There are days where I lose track of time, of place, of everything else, because I've been transported to another universe.

I remember reading 'The Hobbit' on a car trip from Ohio to Mississippi and getting out at a rest-stop in Mississippi and feeling jet-lagged at my return from Middle-earth.

It's always a fun game to go back and guess what long-past people would think.

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

I don't think it necessarily makes me want to go back to my 20s, but what I love about playing any type of character is the escapism.

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.

And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.

Sometimes I feel that a more rational explanation for all that has happened during my lifetime is that I am still only thirteen years old, reading Jules Verne or H. G. Wells, and have fallen asleep.

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

In 1955, when I'd write a science-fiction novel, I'd set it in the year 2000. I realised around 1977 that, 'My God, it's getting exactly like those novels we used to write in the 1950s!' Everything's just turning out to be real.

Time travel is a fantasy we all have. The 'Back to the Future' series really exploits that wish.

I'm just coming from a more personal - and, I guess, more nostalgic - point of view.

I remember daydreaming out in the outfield: I wish I had more time. I want to read 'The Brothers Karamazov.'

There is a sense of melancholy attached to seeing images of yourself from a different era, especially when you see a picture.

That's what I love about 'Doctor Who' - it takes you back to being the age you were when you first saw it.

What's always intriguing to me is transforming my subjects into a character from another era.

I'm always game for movies based on time travel. Hopefully, someday, I'll be a part of a time travel series of films.

I live in a wonderful world of make-believe. A world of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. A world of Winnie the Pooh and Edward Bear. Things like that. Wonderful things. Funny things.

Very often, as I wander through life, I'll get that old feeling that I've come back from the future, and I'm living in the past. And it's a really horrible feeling.

I think when, like, things like 'The Wizard' and even like 'Tron,' when it first came out, I was a teenager, and, man, I really wanted to kind of just kind of disappear into it.

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

I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow.