imaginative retreat Quotes

If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.

No matter how people mess with you or let you down, or how you let yourself down, a good book means that when you get in bed that night, you have a good hour. I feel like you pay all day for that hour. That's what books mean to me. I can open this two-dimensional , flat white page with squiggly little black marks on them, and someone has created this world that you're going to enter into.

Daydreamin' drugs the pain of living.

To be creative you must create a space for yourself where you can be undisturbed... separate from everyday concerns.

I think there seems to be a need for escapism at the moment. Maybe that's the type of world we're living in. It's a sanctuary, in a way, where you can immerse yourself in something that doesn't exist, whether that's TV shows or comic books or novels. it's not solely down to magic and vampires - that's in at the moment. but escapism, being a part of other worlds, is very good for you.

I'm removed in my real life, and unable to express certain things face to face. So I have always found myself in this fantasy world. That's why I started writing songs and stories from a very young age. I'd much rather walk around anonymously cooking up tales than face the people that I have known forever.

A book is the only real escape from this fallen world. Aside from death.

She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth.

A studio, like a poem, is an intimacy and a freedom you can look out from, into each part of your life and a little beyond.

Since the individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining, the average man must take to daydreaming.