Book Quote by Gaston Bachelard

“Books are the original virtual reality.”

— Marushia Dark

“Reality and the virtual space reflect each other. They correspond to each other.”

— Koji Suzuki

“We love books because they are the greatest escape. That is because our own minds eye is the purest form of virtual reality.”

— M.R. Mathias

The virtual is opposed not to the real but to the actual. The virtual is fully real in so far as it is virtual.

— Gilles Deleuze

“Books are the reality you get to choose; life is the reality you hide from inside a book.”

— A.M. Hudson

If this book has made any point clear, I hope it's that things don't have to be real to be true. Or vice versa.

— Grant Morrison

“...sense of reality is important in any work of fiction...”

— Stephen King

“In reality, every reader, while he is reading, is the reader of his own self. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical…

— Marcel Proust

Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.

— Jorge Luis Borges

“In this twenty-first century, reality is virtual and truth is broader.”

— Abhaidev

Virtual reality is a self-created form of chosen reality. Therefore it exists.

— Joan Lowery Nixon

“It’s seductive, to live in a virtual space, especially when the real world isn’t what you want it to be.”

— Penny Reid