... people made the imaginary real all the time: taking…

I make up stories about people who are either imaginary or some variation of myself.

— Jami Attenberg

When you write a novel, you make other people see your imaginary friends.

— Tayari Jones

For those without money, the road to the treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.

— Pete Hamill

“The difference between imaginary and real object creates a continuos desire”

— Lars Fr. H. Svendsen

There are two kinds of Arctic problems, the imaginary and the real. Of the two, the imaginary are the most real.

— Vilhjalmur Stefansson

The substance of grief is not imaginary. It's as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can…

— Barbara Kingsolver

When one person has an imaginary friend, it's called crazy. When a group of people have the same imaginary friend, it's called religion.

— Derek Queen

Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.

— Joe Hill

An interlude of false innocence has passed. Today, as we enter the post-photographic era, we must face once again the ineradicable fragility of our…

— William J. Mitchell

True knowledge of good and evil as we possess is merely abstract or general, and the judgment which we pass on the order of…

— Baruch Spinoza

Even the very youngest children already are perfectly able to discriminate between the imaginary and the real, whether in books or movies or in…

— Alison Gopnik

Actors speak of things imaginary as if they were real, while you preachers too often speak of things real as if they were imaginary.

— Thomas Betterton

Once you realize that the world is your own projection, you are free of it. You need not free yourself of a world that…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“enjoying the danger—more imaginary than real, yet still sweet.”

— Mikhail Iossel

“A good novel is the biography of an imaginary person--and when the biography is completed, the person is no longer imaginary; he is as…

— William Edmund Barrett