Florentijn Hofman Quotes

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

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

Fantasy has a dark side to it. It also has a light hemisphere - the power of the human imagination to keep going, to imagine a better tomorrow.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

We all possess the need to dream.

Life would have been absolutely empty without imagination.

I'm a great believer in fairy tales. I think it is important to have something you can lose yourself in.

If you are a dreamer come in If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar A hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer If youre a pretender com sit by my fire For we have some flax golden tales to spin Come in! Come in!

The world would never amount to a hill of beans if people didn't use their imaginations to think of the impossible.

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.

In my stories, I controlled what happened in a way I couldn't in real life. My characters lived through the horror and degradation of the cruelty of others and they not only survived, they thrived. They gave me hope and laughter, and they kept me going in spite of everything else. They were my heroes.

Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.

Angels and Airwaves is a complete, pure reflection of who I am. The philosophy, the spiritualism, the esotericism, the idea of hope and space and the themes about life and grandeur... that's all me.

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

That's one thing about fiction: you can make the world be the way you think it should be.

Nothing happens unless first we dream.

I loved the world of imagination.

I like to write about things that don't reflect exactly on my life.

I do what I do because of Walt Disney. Goofy. Mickey Mouse. I never forgot how their films entertained me.

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

I've read up on magic, and I think it sets you free, and it gives you hope. You can explore worlds you didn't know existed. It stretches your imagination, and I like my own imagination to be stretched and also the children I'm telling the story to. It gives you a sense of wonder.

Live life and write about life. Of the making of many books there is indeed no end, but there are more than enough books about books.

We're all dreamers.

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.