Life Quote by Paul Auster

“It was all your imagination. And imagination is sometimes worse than reality…”

— Banana Yoshimoto

“Up till a minute ago it felt so real, but now it seems imaginary. Just a few steps is all it takes for everything…

— Haruki Murakami

“I don't know, I feel like this isn't the real world. The people, the scene: they just don't seem real to me.”

— Haruki Murakami

“And I know that I'd just make myself unhappy by comparing that reality to... something perfect that I built up in my imagination.”

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

“It's not like in the movies. It's better, because it's real.”

— Jenny Han

“The harder I try to realistically portray real things, the more the things that appear in my work have a tendency to become unreal.”

— Haruki Murakami

“I liked the imaginary people on the entertainment feed way more than I liked real ones, but you can’t have one without the other.”

— Martha Wells

“Reality could be so different than perception.”

— Mia Sheridan

“Empty of anything that defined it as real. That was how I felt sometimes. I existed in a world made for show, not depth,…

— Gwen Hayes

“But, as was so often the case, the reality was different from what I’d imagined.”

— Heidi Heilig

“Just because it's imaginary, doesn't mean it's not real.”

— Catherynne M. Valente

“Everything was real, not perfect. And yet that's what had made it so perfect.”

— Sarah Winman