“Grow up. This is real. The world is ugly and nasty and fucked up, and so are we.” — Leah Raeder Copy Share Image
I believe having judges with real world, frontline experience as a prosecutor is a good thing. — Amy Klobuchar Copy Share Image
Art is not a copy of the real world; one of the damn things is enough. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
The fiction Im most interested in has lines of reference to the real world. — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
To live in a real world is a very challenging part of life. So when life changes to be harder, change yourself… — Edwin Mamerto Copy Share Image
I wanted to set 'Heading Out' in a real world, a concept I originally struggled with, as I don't have a proper… — Sue Perkins Copy Share Image
You can only really invent something if you connect yourself to the real world - whatever that means. — Peter Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Meditation transports one from the transient world of matter to the real world of dreamings, visions, and imaginings where idea is and… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
We do live, all of us, on many different levels, and for most artists the world of imagination is more real than… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Your preparation for the real world is not in the answers you’ve learned, but in the questions you’ve learned how to ask… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“there’s a lot of pressure this year with the team. I don’t have the luxury of fairies and whatever other crap is… — Tracy Ewens Copy Share Image
“The real world isn’t ready to handle our reality. How could they accept that the gulags, the drugs, and the Blood Pit… — Tillie Cole Copy Share Image
A handy short definition of almost all science fiction might read: realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Oscar always said that books are truly our best friends. He said that they never think poorly of us and that they… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“He'd spent too long being disappointed by the world - he'd spent so many years pining for something like this, some proof… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Children’s literature must build a bridge between the colorful dream world full of fantasy and illusion, and a tougher real world full… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We all have a thirst for wonder. It's a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it. What… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I valued the biblical foundation I got at Biola. I was able to take classes that strengthened my faith and helped me… — John Thune Copy Share Image
A book had always been a door to another world... a world much more interesting and fantastical than reality. But she had… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“If your goal is to walk the entire Appalachian Trail, then do it. People who take shortcuts do so because they are… — Jennifer Pharr Davis Copy Share Image
“A real man—real in all the ways that we recognize as real—finds himself suddenly abstracted from the world and deposited in a… — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
I am inspired by the reality that actions we take in the real world, no matter how seemingly small, can have impact… — Kamala Lopez Copy Share Image
Finding a single investment that will return 20% per year for 40 years tends to happen only in dreamland. In the real… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“Why do you think Lara is Lara Casnoff, and Mrs. Casnoff is Mrs. Casnoff?” Elodie whispered as she worked her magic on… — Rachel Hawkins Copy Share Image
I hope that if the people who read my work encounter people in the real world who are like the characters that… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“Hope knew that her thinking regarding books went contrary to the general sentiment of the people of Eden. Books were seen as… — David Bergen Copy Share Image
The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. He knows much more of the fierce variety… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more human world — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
The real world is far more hellish for all us than any fictional representation of it. — Mandy Patinkin Copy Share Image
“In the real world, goodbyes happened when you weren't paying attention.” — Clar Ni Chonghaile Copy Share Image
the world I create in writing compensates for what the real world does not give me. — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
