Books Quote by David Mamet

When I'm most deeply involved in my writing, sometimes I do dream about poetry, and occasionally I wake up from a dream with a…

— James Arthur

According to me [Sigmund ] Freud did not notice that the dream expresses the inner experiences in a symbolic form,resembling in that, poetry or…

— Erich Fromm

There are all sorts of dream interpretations, Freud's being the most notorious, but I have always believed they served a simple eliminatory function, and…

— Stephen King

I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in…

— Brian Eno

Dreams can be like charades in which we act out words rather than see or speak them.

— Jane Roberts

In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama; we give them appropriate figures faces, costumes; they are perfect in…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I dream a lot, in colour and in sound and scent. Quite a few of my stories have come from dreams.

— Joanne Harris

[Sigmund ] Freud did not under-stand that the dream is a highly creative act, written in the universal language of symbolism, and only secondarily…

— Erich Fromm

Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900. It introduced the notion that there existed certain predictable and identifiable processes by which dreams were formed.

— Henry Reed

[Sigmund Freud] makes the interpretation of dreams extremely simple: it deals in substance with discovering what unconscious desires, distorted but recognizable, are hid-den in…

— Erich Fromm

Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer...

— Siri Hustvedt

I think dreams are metaphors. Everything you do in writing is metaphorical. So it seems like the same arena to me.

— Charlie Kaufman