Anthony Marra Quotes

Daydream, imagine, and reflect. It’s the source of infinite creativity.

On a night without moon or stars you can't see a thing, but you can imagine anything.

I have a hyper-active imagination, my mind tends to jump around a little, and I have some trouble between fantasy and reality.

Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive; imagination, not seldom, is sedate.

At night, I love to look in the houses. When I was little, I did that much more, when I was so bored. It might be awful in those houses, of course, but I still speculate about them in a romantic way. It's the same if you are famous: you are in the light, and most people have fantasies about you, but these fantasies have nothing to do with reality.

Where I cannot satisfy my reason, I love to humour my fancy.

A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.

Novels begin, not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming - In thinking, not writing.

It's a dark, cool, quiet place. A basement in your soul. And that place can sometimes be dangerous to the human mind. I can open the door and enter that darkness, but I have to be very careful. I can find my story there. Then I bring that thing to the surface, into the real world.

I've always had an involved imagination.

I have never looked for dream in reality or reality in dream. I have allowed my imagination free play, and I have not been led astray by it.

I daydream a lot - that's how I get my ideas. If I'm sitting in a café, I'm not on my phone because I want to hear my mind. I think that those periods of small solitude that we are really losing are so important.

I like imagination -- and the way I think things could be, had been, or should be -- better than reality.

I was young, and by instinct of self-preservation I had to collect my energy on something, if I were not to be whirled away with the dusk on the farm-roads, or the smoke on the plain. I begun in the evenings to write stories, fairy-tales, and romances, that would take my mind a long way off, to other countries and times.

He who passes not his days in the realm of dreams is the slave of the days.

We all live best in our imaginations.

Daydreaming incubates creative discovery.

There is more pleasure to building castles in the air than on the ground.

The mind revels in conjecture. Where information is lacking, it will gladly fill in the gaps.

As a child I did a lot of imaginary bits, you know. It depends on the individual, I enjoyed then knocking the nail in, I enjoy knocking nails in walls to hang pictures up, but I also enjoy thinking 'I'm gonna do that' but I actually won't do it, I enjoy imagining doing things just as much.

For really, dreaming is the well-mannered people's way of committing suicide.

It's not easy to be Light when you've been Dark. It's almost too much to ask anyone. -Macon Ravenwood

You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.

A daydreamer is prepared for most things.

A lot of peopletell me I'm a bit dreamy, but I like the idea of that. Of being somewhere else.