Been Quote by J. R. R. Tolkien

I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends.

— Ian Rankin

I've always had a really active imagination. Lots of kids have imaginary friends. Mine just took on a rather demonic form.

— Claire Danes

Humans invent an imaginary lover and put that mask over the face of the body in their bed. That is the tragedy of language…

— Orson Scott Card

All the characters are made out of words. With reading, I understand that the people aren't real but the fact that they are made…

— John Green

Prompting children to create imaginary worlds is hugely important.

— Sheila Hancock

One of the series I like is D.M. Cornish's 'Monster Blood Tattoo,' in which he creates a whole language. Kids who are reading that…

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

My imaginary friends have become my imaginary children.

— Chris Colfer

When I was a kid, I had two friends, and they were imaginary and they would only play with each other.

— Rita Rudner

We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us.

— Jerome Bruner

I have become interested in languages which I cannot make up, which I cannot create or even create in: I have become interested in…

— Kathy Acker

The imaginary is what tends to become real.

— Andre Breton

Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but I made…

— Katherine Paterson