If a writer is daydreaming, leave them be. They could be…

The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a person at work: ...…

— Daniel Goleman

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

— Eudora Welty

Without its daydreams, the self is apt to shrink down to the size and shape of the estimation of others

— Michael Pollan

If you've never stared off in the distance, then your life is a shame.

— Adam Duritz

I'll listen to a song so much that ideas start to form out of daydreaming. It's as if I'm reverse-scoring the track and building…

— Hiro Murai

A writer, or at least a poet, is always being asked by people who should know better: “Whom do you write for?” The question…

— Anonymous

“Kids are naturally curious about the world around them. Everything is fascinating and holds their attention as they explore their new surroundings. Adults however,…

— James A. Murphy

The only big ideas I've ever had came from daydreaming, but modern life keeps people from daydreaming. Every moment of the day your mind…

— Paul MacCready

When the writing is really working, I think there is something like dreaming going on. I don't know how to draw the line between…

— John Hersey

He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found…

— Peter S. Beagle

Do not confuse fantasy with imagination; the former consumes itself in daydreaming, the latter stimulates creativity in the arts and in the sciences.

— Fausto Cercignani

“... stability prevents daydreaming about 'what if...' and inserts us totally into what we are doing, causing us to live with a new intensity.”

— Paul Wilkes

Sometimes the worst thing that can happen is, 'Oh, I'm on stage playing a song,' because you're daydreaming about something else, you're on autopilot.…

— Trent Reznor

An excessive preponderance of an idealistic mood is harmful to society: it creates daydreaming, political Don Quixotism, hope for heavenly intervention. This is an…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

The real thing, when done right , is always better than a daydream

— Amy Harmon