“Writers need their writing; they need their imaginary worlds in order to find piece in, or make sense of, the real world.” — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When you're playing cards you can't constantly think about what the money costs you in the real world. You can't be constantly… — Daniel Negreanu Copy Share Image
I want you, as a reader, to experience what I experience, to let that other world, that imaginary world that I have… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
We live in the real world - we live within a certain history of the plague that has landed on us. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
“Whenever I see my teachers out in the real world I clam up, get a sort of weird feeling, and look for… — Alecia Whitaker Copy Share Image
“Slowly, like a movie fadeout, the real world evaporates. I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favorite feeling in the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There are only certain kinds of people who are shown falling in love. It's by and large always heterosexual, it is either… — Konkona Sen Sharma Copy Share Image
Sure, there are moments that you can escape, and you can sit back and just enjoy it, but one of the most… — Lauren Schmidt Hissrich Copy Share Image
“I was a born empiricist. I believed that writers were paid to pretend, and where appropriate should make use of the real… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“So we've pulled the chute, and we're drifting, riding the sky. It's just you and me. You can hear me now that… — Jessica Park Copy Share Image
“I float too much to wander, like you, in the real world. I envy it but that’s the dealio—you’re a train and… — Richard Silken Copy Share Image
Any story worth telling relates to real life in some meaningful way. Scifi allows you to tell meaningful stories without seeming too… — Jane Espenson Copy Share Image
Fairy tales and mythology have always been an exaggerated distillation of the real world. Think of them as blueprints for how to… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I just lived my life on paper. I didn't really live in the real world very much. As… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
To try to teach ignoring technology is to ignore the progress that we have made over the last century. If school is… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
It's no surprise that the droll and (seemingly) all-knowing wizard behind the Chicago Style Q&A puts it all together-entertainingly-for manuscript editors in… — Arthur Plotnik Copy Share Image
“Philosophy always arrives too late to do any such teaching. As the thought of the world, philosophy appears only in the period… — hegel Copy Share Image
“...this, this life, this "everything" you know is a mere paper construction. You, my TV dinner-sucking, glazed-eyed friends, are living in ...… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
“I'm used to the security of living behind my online profiles and the clip art advertisdements I create to define me. I… — Katie Kacvinsky Copy Share Image
“With his five senses he engages this real world. All things necessary to his physical existence he apprehends by the faculties with… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
“If only the real world operated like Elfscape,” Pwnage said, chewing. “If only marriages worked that way. Like every time I did… — Nathan Hill Copy Share Image
“Faking depends on a measure of complicity between the perpetrator and the victim, who together conspire to believe what they don’t believe… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
This is often the way it is in physics - our mistake is not that we take our theories too seriously, but… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Where I'm living is not a storybook world. It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
'Crazy Rich Asians' may be fiction, but given the situation I grew up in, I've had an unparalleled view into the very… — Kevin Kwan Copy Share Image
“Although we look at ourselves as One, in the real world we always experience ourselves as TWO.” — Joey Lawsin Copy Share Image
Treat haters in your online spaces just the same as you would in the real world. If they're not respectful to you… — Andrew Shaffer Copy Share Image
I actually always say that I have a son and a daughter, but I work more for my son, because I want… — Gretchen Carlson Copy Share Image
The real world is where I get to educate and entertain myself. I go and touch the real world and touch real… — Tony Scott Copy Share Image
“It's just that it's not socially acceptable to say sad stuff out loud in the real world because people think that you're… — Alice Oseman Copy Share Image
“I have to try, because I’m doing it again—I’m shutting everything out because I’m frustrated and tired and because the real world… — Francesca Zappia Copy Share Image
Far too many people, many of them white men, are losing healthcare insurance as they lose their manufacturing jobs. This is commerce… — Maya Wiley Copy Share Image
The real world has consequences when you do and say things about others. We're at a point now where you better be… — Curt Schilling Copy Share Image
Wed met at a carefree time, a moment full of promise, in its place now were the harsh lessons of the real… — Hussein Nishah Copy Share Image
Welcome to the real world, she said to me. Condescendingly. Take a seat. Take your life. Plot it out in black and… — John Mayer Copy Share Image
The trouble with you and me, is that we don't live in the real world. We dream of fantastic things that may… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Comic-book movies are mythology, in a way, and there are a lot more parallels in them with what's going on in the… — Sebastian Stan Copy Share Image
I would love to be perfect but nothing in this world is perfect so I have yet to understand why the people… — Marcus Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I'm not a dream crusher. The real world already does enough of that without me getting into the business” — Tim Tharp Copy Share Image
