Imaginary Quotes

524 quotes by 412 authors

Talking to people makes me feel like sleeping. Only my ghostly and imaginary friends, only the conversations I have in my dreams, are genuinely real… — Fernando Pessoa
To rehearse imaginary conversations on paper is called literature. To do so out loud is called madness. — Philip Sington
All writers are insecure, the male ones especially. It's well known. Why else would they spend so much time on make-believe? They're only happy in… — Philip Sington
One minute you're closer to someone than anyone in the whole world, next minute they need only to say the words 'time apart', 'serious talk'… — Helen Fielding
Humans invent an imaginary lover and put that mask over the face of the body in their bed. That is the tragedy of language my… — Orson Scott Card
The Three of them were beautiful, in the way all girls of that age are beautiful. It can't be helped, that sort of beauty, nor… — Margaret Atwood
I stared at the creased map on my wall, the thin green line connecting all the places I had read about. There they were, all… — Kami Garcia
Bubba was the one person who wouldnâ€™t even bat an eyelash that Nick was talking to an â€œimaginaryâ€ friend. Heck, heâ€™d probably bring one of… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I've been trying to fit everything in, trying to get to the end before it's too late, but I see now how badly I've deceived… — Paul Auster
Sleep deprivation made his life an imaginary thing, his days a ribbon floating aimlessly in water."Â - Whelk — Maggie Stiefvater
Her blog was doing well, with thousands of unique visitors each month, and she was earning good speaking fees, and she had a fellowship at… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
To love! To surrender absolutely, to prostrate oneself before the divine image, to die a thousand imaginary deaths, to annihilate every trace of self, to… — Henry Miller
But do you know this idea of the imaginary homeland? Once you set out from shore on your little boat, once you embark, you'll never… — Claire Messud
... people made the imaginary real all the time: taking the music they heard in their head and recording it, seeing a house in their… — Joe Hill
I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary… — George Orwell
At last she shut the book sharply, lay back, and drew a deep breath, expressive of the wonder which always marks the transition from the… — Virginia Woolf
...there was cement in her soul. It had been there for a while, an early morning disease of fatigue, shapeless desires, brief imaginary glints of… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place. — Raymond E. Feist
Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. — Theodore Newton Vail
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are… — Charles Caleb Colton

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