“Surely we all occasionally buy books because of a daydream we're having - a little fantasy about the people we might turn into one day, when our lives are different, quieter, more introspective, and when all the urgent reading, whatever that might be, has been done. We never arrive at that point, needless to say.” PeopleLittlesHas BeensBookDifferentDoneMightTurnsReadingFantasyOur LivesOne DayUrgentDaydreamingIntrospective Book:More Baths Less Talking: Notes from the Reading Life of a Celebrated Author Locked in Battle with Football, Family, and Time Itself Source: More Baths Less Talking: Notes from the Reading Life of a Celebrated Author Locked in Battle with Football, Family, and Time Itself
“I think most of us maintain some sort of fantasy in our minds that we are heroes, if only secretly, that we could really be amazing if only given a chance. That we could all be loved one day. You can always think of yourself as being transcendent or heroic. I think we all are.” IfsThinkingMindGivenChanceFantasyHeroOne DayHeroicLoved OnesThink Of YouTranscendentGiven A Chance Author:Megan Fox
“The fantasy of the wedding day is that it represents undeniable public and private truth that you have been chosen. For that one day, you are the most valuable creature in the world - a treasure, a princess, a prize.” WorldHas BeensFantasyOne DayCreaturesValuableTreasureChosenPrizePrincessWedding Day Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“I'm self-centered, inconsiderate, and what was the third adjective? Oh, yes, and I have this infantile fantasy that one day I'll amount to something as an actress.” SelfFantasyAmountOne DayThirdsYeahActressesSelfishnessSelf CenteredAdjectivesInfantileInconsiderate Author:Jay Presson Allen
“There is something old and true in fantasy that speaks to something deep within us, to the child who dreamt that one day he would hunt the forests of the night, and feast beneath the hollow hills, and find a love to last forever somewhere south of Oz and north of Shangri-La.” ChildrenLastsNightSpeakFantasyForeverOne DaySouthForestsHillsHuntsHollowDeep WithinShangri Author:George R. R. Martin
“I want to be involved with young people in some way. Teenagers. Because that's the most vulnerable time. I have a fantasy of becoming a teacher one day.” PeopleWayWantYoungFantasyTeacherBecomingInvolvedOne DayVulnerableTeenager Author:Elisabeth Shue
“My fantasy life made me survivor. One day I knew that me, this skinny, ugly girl who was only invited to slumber parties when they were forced to - someday I knew I would be someone. That was my driving goal. It wasn't to be famous. I didn't want furs and signing autographs, I didn't care about any of that. I wanted to be someone other than myself.” CareGirlGoalPartyFantasyOne DayUglyDrivingSomedaySurvivorUgly GirlSlumber Party Author:Kristen Johnston
“I'm trying to write truthfully about life, and naturalism, or the way people normally talk in movies, is a convention. The way I write is about life and is quite truthful, and there is a kind of brutal side to the relationship, and to the feelings, that makes it somewhat painful, but I think it's a very intense portrait of the relationship of two people. And a bit about what people feel like when they're alone, because it all takes place in one day, and during the day, they spend a lot of time alone in their different - you get to imagine what their fantasy lives are like.” PeopleThinkingWritingTryingKindDifferentFeelingsFantasyImagineOne DayPainfulIntenseTruthfulBrutalMe AloneNaturalism Author:Wallace Shawn