religion, in effect, is creating an imaginary problem…

“Paranoia. The more you think of an imaginary problem, the more you feel as though it’s real –”

— Simona Panova

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

— Marianne Moore

“You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I…

— William S. Burroughs

As so many writers know, the experience of creating an imaginary world is closer to dreaming than it is to normal, grit-your-teeth work. It's…

— David Ignatius

You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I…

— William S. Burroughs

I love being part of a group who tells stories, whether it be in the theater or in cinema, and I love creating imaginary…

— Jeremy Irons

In a sense, if you're not getting it wrong really a lot when you're creating imaginary futures, then you're just not doing it enough.…

— William Gibson

I'm creating an imaginary — it's always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.

— William S. Burroughs

The good thing about writing a novel is that you're creating an imaginary world and can take a break when you need to.

— Liane Moriarty

The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion,…

— Anonymous

“What I have a problem with is not so much religion or god, but faith. When you say you believe something in your heart…

— Penn Jillette

The love religion is all that is written here.

— Rumi

Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man…

— Robert A. Heinlein

From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the…

— Matilda Joslyn Gage

Christianity was never meant to be defined by its disciplines, but by its passions.

— Bill Johnson