“So much of our profession is taken up with pretending … that an actor must spend at least half his waking hours in fantasy.”
Where's the Rest of Me? http://books.google.com/books?id=n6pZAAAAMAAJ&q=%22So+much+of+our+profession+is+taken+up+with+pretending%22+%22that+an+actor+must+spend+at+least+half+his+waking+hours+in+fantasy%22&pg=PA6#v=onepage (1965) <br class="br">1960s
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Joshua Casteel (1979–2012) US Army soldier, lecturer, and writer
Source: Letters from Abu Ghraib (2008), p. 92.
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books
Variant: I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.
Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Song lyrics, Hounds of Love (1985), The Ninth Wave
Daniel Abraham (1969) speculative fiction writer from the United States
Context: I don't find fantasy to be more or less suited to philosophical questions than any other genre, really. I think that the soul of fantasy—or second-world fantasy at least—is our problematic relationship with nostalgia. The impulse to return to a golden age seems to be pretty close to the bone, at least in western cultures, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if it's a human universal. For me, it's tied up with the experience of aging and the impulse to recapture youth. Epic fantasy, I think, takes its power from that. We create golden eras and either celebrate them or—more often—mourn their loss.<br><br>Interview with Peter Orullian http://orullian.com/writing/danielabraham_interview.html
