Roger Ross Williams Quotes

I don't really deal with the attention I receive to be honest. I build up a fantasy world around me that I inhabit. I cherry pick elements of literature, music, film, history and art, then weave them together to construct a fantasy reality to live in. It doesn't always work out though, I got evicted from my own fantasy once, which was quite embarrassing.

I spent my childhood in an imaginary world - probably because I needed an escape. I think that's one of the reasons people have imaginations - because they can't maintain existence here.

I had kind of a rough childhood, so I created my own reality.

The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.

If anyone's depressed for any reason, whether a relationship has fallen apart or they're having money problems, wearing feathered wings and a tutu takes you into a whole other world. A whole new woooooorld, a world of bright and shining stars!

Back when I was very small, and we had this bathroom with these sort of paneled mirrors on the side. And I would just sit there - because it was the only warm room in the house. And I would - if I was in a bad place - I would go to my imaginary place with these mirrors, and create this entire other world to sort of help level out what I was dealing with.

I have a certain avoidance of reality that makes fantasy an ideal choice for me.

I am living permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality.

The ability to suspend reality and go into a make-believe world can be really, really difficult if there's something really big going on.

A child who has never fantasized about having other parents is seriously lacking in imagination.

With action movies, that's just fun stuff for me. That's me being a kid again. Same with 'The Best of Me' and these romantic dramas. It's such a freedom from reality and social constructions. You get to just have fun and play and be in a movie.

Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.

As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.

We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay.

I think I spend most of my time not living in reality, actually.

I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.

Once you've got a child to the point that they've discovered books, they're safe. There's a world of the imagination that when they're hurt or upset, they can move into, and it is wonderful.

I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It's best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

When I was small, I was always thinking about different worlds in my head.

Everyone needs a fantasy.

At home, when the heating pipes made noises, I imagined a tiny person was in there skipping with a rope. The fantasy world of tiny things became my escape.

... imagination robs us in great measure of reality...

I love to fantasize still, as I did as a little boy. If I see a movie, I want to fantasize about what it's all about.

As kids, we lived in this magical world and roamed free in the gardens. I was obsessed with 'Alice in Wonderland.' My dad cut the hedges so that they started shorter and grew taller, so I could run up and down and feel like I was shrinking.

When I was growing up, I didn't feel strong. I felt weak. I felt like a scared little kid. So I naturally turned to books to deal with that feeling, and I really turned to fantasy. That's really what influenced my decision to write a fantasy novel.