Fantasy Exploration Quotes

Imagination allows us to conceive of delightful future possibilities, pick the most amazing one, and pull the present forward to meet it.

I try to maintain a healthy dose of daydreaming, to remain sane.

I think academics are infuriating. For every expert on Shakespeare there is another one to cancel his theory out. It drives you up the wall. I think the greatest form of finding out the truth is through fantasy.

Daydreaming had started me on the way; but story writing once I was truly in its grip, took me and shook me awake.

I think Eleanor Roosevelt always had a most incredible comfort writing letters. I mean, she was in the habit of writing letters. And that's where she allowed her fantasies to flourish. That's where she allowed her emotions to really evolve. And that's where she allowed herself to express herself really fully, and sometimes whimsically, very often romantically. And it really starts with her letters to her father, who is lifelong her primary love.

Children have a very good idea of how to distinguish between fantasies and realities. It's just they are equally interested in exploring both.

Reading dreams. That's what started her walking down the road. Every day she'd walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.

Since it doesn't cost a dime to dream, you'll never shortchange yourself when you stretch your imagination.

I feel like developing the muscle of my imagination became a way to survive reality.

I've never done anything but dream. This, and this alone, has been the meaning of my life. My only real concern has been my inner life.

Take a few minutes of every day to fantasize about how you would wander, travel, or explore if you could.

The irruption of the supernatural into our world is a much more enticing notion to explore than the same thing happening in some past time, or in a wholly imaginary world.

Nightmares are a strange thing. Your worst fear is sometimes something you enjoy thinking about, for some strange reason. I don't know why that is, but it's some kind of fantasy that people play out. "What would I do to protect my children? I'd do anything." And then, you watch it play out. I'm petrified of such a thing.