Quotes About Imaginary Worlds

#1. Writers need their writing; they need their imaginary worlds in order to find piece in, or make sense of, the real world.

Terry Brooks

#2. My mom said I was an escapist at heart ... that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one

Amy Plum

#3. Science fiction is essentially a kind of fiction in which people learn more about how to live in the real world, visiting imaginary worlds unlike our own, in order to investigate by way of pleasurable thought-experiments how things might be done differently.

Brian Stableford

#4. I started writing because I decided I was too old to play pretend in the backyard. Then I found that I could create those imaginary worlds on the page.

Veronica Roth

#5. Saul Bellow once said, 'A writer is a reader who has moved to emulation' - which I think is true. I just started writing and made that jump from reader to writer and learned how hard it was, but also how much fun it was - losing myself in these imaginary worlds.

Stewart O'Nan

#6. I was lucky, I had support from Mum and Dad - they said as long as you work hard, anything is possible. I never thought past those two things - that I liked living in imaginary worlds and that it is possible to do that for a living.

Harry Treadaway

#7. I think I've always been drawn to the second person. When I was growing up and playing with my friends, the usual way we interacted with imaginary worlds was as characters: a bench was 'your' boat, leaves on a lawn were the fins of sharks out to get 'you.'

Mohsin Hamid

#8. Through the magic of art imaginary worlds become real.

Marty Rubin

#9. I was a real daydreamer at school, gazing out of the window and losing myself in imaginary worlds.

Talulah Riley

#10. It's a mystical quality of music, that music isn't really concrete, and it's communicating abstractions about imaginary worlds. At least, my music's like that. It's not real. It's unreal, it's all fabrication. To write a song about Obama would suddenly break the spell.

Sufjan Stevens

#11. I love being part of a group who tells stories, whether it be in the theater or in cinema, and I love creating imaginary worlds rather as children do, but I never had a burning desire to act, but it just sort of suited me.

Jeremy Irons

#12. I rely on a backbone of books and, for the most part, it's enough to keep me quiet, half-drugged with dreams of imaginary worlds.

Rinsai Rossetti

#13. We live in imaginary, virtual worlds created by corporations that profit from our deception.

Chris Hedges

#14. BIO'GRAPHER: A writer of lives; a relator not of the history of nations, but of the actions of particular persons.

Samuel Johnson

#15. Like any child raised on tales of magical worlds beyond paintings and mirrors and wardrobes, I had yearned to enter Middle Earth, to reach through.

Jim C. Hines

#16. Focus on the competition to diminish the time dedicated to internal politics.

James Kerr

#17. Thank God I have done my duty.

Horatio Nelson

#18. I live in two unique worlds, traveling between both with just the opening or closing of my eyes.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#19. Blending consensus historical events and personages with imaginary occult forces is a strong recipe for counterfactual storytelling goodness that combines the best of two worlds: resonant history with wild-eyed fantasy.

Paul Di Filippo

#20. Kasandra took charge of things. She was the most organized person Johnny knew. In fact she was so organized that she had too much organization for one person, and it overflowed in every direction.

Terry Pratchett

#21. I bleed words.
I dream in narrative.
I live in infinite worlds.
I befriend figmental characters.
I wish on stars in other galaxies.
I harvest stories from a brooding muse.
I bloom under moonlight in hushed seclusion.
I am a writer.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#22. Whenever culture has gone through a radical change, as ours has - from industrial age to information age - there are people who will deny that things have changed; they resist it and refuse to change.

Daniel Greenberg

#23. Art is real and imaginary, two worlds rolled into one - the fulfillment of the artist's insatiable soul.

Edward J. Fraughton

#24. Miracles don't exist. There is cause and effect, dreams and reality. Living and Dead. Your hope is absurd. Your romanticism, embarrassing

Isaac Marion

#25. I've never been much for theory and scales.

Adrian Smith

#26. Work hard until hard work isn't work at all.

Behdad Sami

#27. How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#28. Most of the people I know in bands, all they are concerned about is getting to do the next record.

Bruce McCulloch

#29. I had the idea that there were two worlds. There was a real world as I called it, a world of wars and boxing clubs and children'shomes on back streets, and this real world was a world where orphans burned orphans ... I liked the other world in which almost everyone lived. The imaginary world.

Norman Mailer

#30. Darwin believed in intellectual progress, but he believed that it would come smoothly and harmoniously and happily and it would eventually cover the whole world.

James Moore