Reality is the place we need to live, but our imaginations…

To be successful we must live from our imaginations, not from our memories.

— Stephen Covey

...speaking as a novelist myself, I know that members of our profession live in our imaginations as much or more as we inhabit what…

— Dan Simmons

“Once your fairytale gets shattered multiple times, life will finally paint reality in its place.”

— VaeEshia Ratcliff-Davis

The reality of any place is what its people remember of it.

— Charles Kuralt

Most actors I know come from a screwed up background, so it makes sense that if you can walk on to a space and…

— Peter Mullan

“As terrifying and painful as reality can be, it's also the only place where you can find true happiness.”

— Ernest Cline

[The photograph is] still a space to reorganize our thoughts about reality and our place in the world. How do you disentangle the surface…

— Gilles Peress

I'm not crazy about reality, but it's the only place to get a decent meal.

— Groucho Marx

How we delight to build our recollections upon some basis of reality,--a place, a country, a local habitation! how the events of life, as…

— Washington Irving

I created the OASIS because I never felt at home in the real world. I didn't know how to connect with the people there.…

— Ernest Cline

“I realized, as painful as reality can be, it's also the only place where you can find true happiness.”

— Ernest Cline

I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal.

— Groucho Marx

Because of my fear that the daytime world would become real, I had to establish reality in another place.

— Anna Kavan

“Place in writing often exists at that intersection between the reality of place and one's imagination about that place -- what one believes, hopes,…

— David St. John

Reality is the only place you can deal from. If you're still worrying about the way things should be, you haven't even approached the…

— Georgette Mosbacher