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- If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects… — Gaston Bachelard
- [I] learnt, for the first time, the joys of substituting hard, disciplined study for the indulgence of day-dreaming. — James Black
- The power of a text is different when it is read from when it is copied out. Only the copied text thus… — Walter Benjamin
- I think a lot of stuff I find funny is from day dreaming. — Demetri Martin
- Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with… — Victor Hugo
- Novels begin, not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming - In thinking, not writing. — Joyce Carol Oates
- The castle-building habit, the day-dreaming habit - how it grows! what a luxury it becomes; how we fly to its enchantments at… — Mark Twain
- Writing is not a job or activity. Nor do I sit at a desk writing for inspiration to strike. Writing is like… — John Marsden
- Self-awareness is not the same thing as self-approval, any more than imagination is the same thing as day-dreaming. — Francis Spufford
- I used to get in trouble at school for day-dreaming. — Nick Park
- Action without vision is only passing time. Vision without action is merely day dreaming. But vision with action can change the world. — Nelson Mandela
- I SPEND EVERY LEISURE TIME I HAVE JUST TO DAY DREAM, THERE IS NO CERTAIN REASON ACTUALLY JUST SIMPLY BECAUSE IT GIVES… — NO VOICE