119 Quotes About Daydreaming

Daydreaming does not enjoy tremendous prestige in our culture, which tends to regard it as unproductive thought. Writers perhaps appreciate its importance better than most, since a fair amount of what they call work consists of little more than daydreaming edited. Yet anyone who reads for pleasure should prize it too, for what is reading a good book but a daydream at second hand? Unlike any other form of thought, daydreaming is its own reward.

If a writer is daydreaming, leave them be. They could be plotting their next great story.

The subject matter of daydreams has been determined by modern science to vary widely, ranging from having sex with a stranger on a train to having sex with a coworker to having sex with Mila Kunis.

I don't have much in me left for Somalia, because the country is so broken, it's not realistic to daydream about it.

Daydreams are the delusions of the devil.

If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides.

She [my mother] gave me permission to wonder, to dawdle, to daydream.

Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.

That's how I work, whether with stories or novels - they start with an image that comes to me in a daydream, and a lot of times I'm walking around with these pictures in my head for awhile before I start writing.