“I try to get a feeling of what's going on in the story before I put it down on paper, but actually most of this breaking-in period is one long, fantastic daydream, in which I think about anything but the work at hand. I can't turn out slews of stuff each day. I wish I could. I seem to have some neurotic need to perfect each paragrapheach sentence, evenas I go along.” ThinkingNeedsWritingTryingLongI CanStoriesFeelingsHandsSeemsTurnsWishStuffPerfectPeriodsPaperSentencesFantasticEach DayNeuroticDaydreamingParagraph Author:William Styron
“I used to just daydream all the time about being in movies, from the age of like, four onwards. I would sit down and watch movies with my father and my grandfather, and always pretended that I was in the stories.” StoriesAgeUsedFatherWatchesFourDown AndGrandfatherMy GrandfatherDaydreamingWatch Movie Author:Aneurin Barnard
“Daydreaming had started me on the way; but story writing once I was truly in its grip, took me and shook me awake.” WayWritingStoriesAwakeDaydreamingStory Writing Author:Eudora Welty