My theory is that literature is essential to society in the way that dreams are essential to our lives. We can't live without dreaming - as we can't live without sleep. We are 'conscious' beings for only a limited period of time, then we sink back into sleep - the 'unconscious.' It is nourishing, in ways we can't fully understand.
In the big picture, few of our careers live up to the dreams we nursed when we were young. In fact, one underside of success is that it's nearly always penultimate, and so every accomplishment merely raises the bar.
With unemployment still abysmally high, the Obama economy is crushing Hispanics' dreams for their children to live a better life.
I had dreams in 2000 of being an Olympian for boxing. I never talk about it.
My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.
I always wanted to be a Californian. In my wildest dreams, I always liked California - it's the place where oranges grows on trees! Fruit just falls off the trees.
While novels are fiction, mine are usually very close to my heart. Like my other books, 'The Lemon Orchard' is inspired by something I care about. I care so deeply. The stories are my dreams, and I want to do a lot of research. Roberto is based on a real live friend of mine named Armando who worked in my garden.
To discuss a Martin Amis book, you must first discuss the orchestrated release of a Martin Amis book. In London, which rightly prides itself on the vibrancy of its literary cottage industry, Amis is the Steve Jobs of book promoters, and his product rollouts are as carefully managed as anything Apple dreams up.
Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality.
If our dreams are sincere desires to achieve, not mere pipe-dreams, there is something deep within ourselves which comes out to meet them and helps to make them realities.
Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.
My parents migrated to Phoenix, AZ, in the '80s, and I watched them work tirelessly to provide for me and my siblings as they encouraged us to pursue our dreams.
Dream study impacts culture. We are put in touch with the inner poet who dreams. We hear our inner, subjective response to the outer world. That helps spiritualize our lives.
Let your dreams outgrow the shoes of your expectations.
One of my dreams was always to have a piano - a room with a piano overlooking the ocean or a lake.
I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.
They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers.
