Book Quote by Michel Foucault

The imaginary is what tends to become real.

— Andre Breton

“Most of us are used to thinking that “imaginary” is the opposite of “real.” That is, when we imagine things, we are just making…

— Linda Bender

“The distinction between what is real and what is imaginary is not one that can be finally maintained...all existing things are, in an intelligible…

— Anonymous

The author: an imaginary person who writes real books.

— Edward Abbey

The distinction between what is real and what is imaginary is not one that can be finely maintained ... all existing thing are ... imaginary.

— Gregg Braden

There's a level of realism you can only achieve through the imaginary.

— Fumito Ueda

“Literature is the real life of imaginary people.”

— Stefanos Livos

“A good novel is the biography of an imaginary person--and when the biography is completed, the person is no longer imaginary; he is as…

— William Edmund Barrett

To say that a thing is imaginary is not to dispose of it in the realm of mind, for the imagination, or the image…

— Dion Fortune

The novel is a meditation on existence as seen through the medium of imaginary characters.

— Milan Kundera

As so many writers know, the experience of creating an imaginary world is closer to dreaming than it is to normal, grit-your-teeth work. It's…

— David Ignatius

A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're the same.…

— Margaret Atwood