Quotes of: Imaginary-world Keyword

The good thing about writing a novel is that you're creating an imaginary world and can take a break when you need to.

Liane Moriarty

Donnie: I made a new friend. Dr. Lilian Thurman: Real or imaginary? Donnie: Imaginary.

Donnie Darko

We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe.

The Book of Imaginary Beings

Thank heavens that somewhere deep in all women is a whore

The Book of Real and Imaginary Girlfriends

We actors do this to pretend, to go into imaginary circumstances, so when the imaginary circumstance is of a different time, that just compounds the joy of doing what we do.

Tim DeKay

All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world because they find ordinary life rather difficult or boring or both.

Christopher Koch

It feels like flying and landing to all the continents of the world with the use of my imaginary paper that can floats in the air.

Life

Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be bloody-minded. Argue with the world. And never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping...

Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991

Gods, religions and national boundaries are absolutely imaginary. They don't tend to exist. As soon as you pull back half a mile and look down at the Earth there are no national boundaries. There aren't even national boundaries when you get down and ...

Neil Gaiman

The real world has its limits; the imaginary world is infinite. Unable to enlarge the one, let us restrict the other, for it is from the difference between the two alone that are born all the pains which make us truly unhappy.

Emile or On Education

Martial (the main character of LOCUS SOLUS) has a very interesting conception of literary beauty: the work must contain nothing real, no observations about the world or the mind, nothing but completely imaginary constructions. These are in themselves...

Pierre Janet

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

Die for Me

I was 21 years and 218 days old when I received the Academy Award for Best Actress. I had just stepped into an imaginary world that I'd seen at a distance for years.

Marlee Matlin

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

I've written a detective series myself, set in an imaginary, and slightly futuristic, Chinese city. The novels have an extremely tenuous relationship with the real world, since the hero is the city's Hell and ends up with a sidekick who is a demon.

Liz Williams

Maybe they hurt so much that the only way they can say it, is to say nothing

Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

Some people believe in imaginary friends. I believe in imaginary numbers.

R.M. ArceJaeger

If one person has an imaginary friend they're crazy, if many people have the same imaginary friend its religion

Iraniya Naynesh

I had a good time that night, too," Michael said, "but I kept thinking, This is forever. This is forever. You will have this good time again and again, a million times over, until it will be like a play in which you and Laura and a few fugitive lives...

A Fine and Private Place

It's hard to not worry, because trying not to worry reminds me that I should be worried

Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

I had an imaginary friend. I don't know when I stopped having an imaginary friend, but my mom and everybody in my family remembers it pretty good. It's definitely true.

CC Sabathia