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The imaginary world has always been the most fun place for me to be. -- Claire Forlani
Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships. -- Lloyd Alexander
I'm not interested in an imaginary world -- Edward Bond
I'm not interested in an imaginary world. -- Edward Bond
My mom said I was an escapist at heart.... that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one -- Amy Plum
I was a real daydreamer at school, gazing out of the window and losing myself in imaginary worlds -- Talulah Riley
When you go to the theater, you are slipping out of your life into someone else's imaginary world. -- Robert Krulwich
The reason we write fiction is because it's so much easier to exist spending part of each day in an imaginary world. -- Kurt Vonnegut
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
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
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
I want you, as a reader, to experience what I experience, to let that other world, that imaginary world that I have created, tell you things about the real world. -- Terry Brooks
The irruption of the supernatural into our world is a much more enticing notion to explore than the same thing happening in some past time, or in a wholly imaginary world. -- Elizabeth Hand
At last she shut the book sharply, lay back, and drew a deep breath, expressive of the wonder which always marks the transition from the imaginary world to the real world. -- Virginia Woolf
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
I spent my childhood in an imaginary world - probably because I needed an escape. I think that's one of the reasons people have imaginations - because they can't maintain existence here. -- Rickie Lee Jones
Sometimes I'm stressed and I'm sick of things and I need to forget about them for a while, so in Harry Potter you're taken to this wonderful imaginary world where everything is so different. -- Evanna Lynch
Possibly the strangest book ever made, the 'Codex Seraphinianus' is an encyclopedia of an imaginary world, with illegible calligraphy - it is written in an alphabet no one can understand - and surreal drawings of odd beasts and machines. -- Russell Smith
When you strive for perfection, you compare different versions of what could be instead of being present with what is. Perfectionism is an attempt to inhabit an imaginary world in order to avoid experiencing the world in which you live. -- Gary Zukav
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
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
I think for me, the imaginary world was always exciting. I started in New York doing theatre, from having just one person in an audience to performing for a full house. I think I've always enjoyed playing different characters, blending into different environments and such. -- Dilshad Vadsaria
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
Initially I probably didn't even call it acting, but dressing up or something. As a kid I think you fully imagine the world in which you want to inhabit, so you put some clothes on and just kind of freely imagine this world, and it's a total imaginary world. -- Hugo Weaving
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
To lovers, I devise their imaginary world, with whatever they may need, as the stars of the sky, the red, red roses by the wall, the snow of the hawthorn, the sweet strains of music, and aught else they may desire to figure to each other the lastingness and beauty of their love. -- Williston Fish
Sometimes I`m stressed and I`m sick of things and I need to forget about them for a while, so in Harry Potter you`re taken to this wonderful imaginary world where everything is so different. But also the main characters are completely real and modern so you can relate to them. -- Evanna Lynch
I had a strong propensity, which I still have, to be invisible. In grade school, I'd try to disappear and become formless. I lived in a very imaginary world. I loved poetry and wrote my first novel when I was 9. It was about a little girl and the people she met in the woods. -- Amanda Plummer
In the past the need for a hierarchal form of society has been the doctrine specifically of the High. It had been preached by kings and aristocrats and the priests, lawyers and the like who were parasitical upon them, and it had generally been softened by promises of an imaginary world beyond the grave. -- George Orwell
You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go on writing. My answer is most emphatically yes. I would go on writing for company. Because I'm creating an imaginary-it's always imaginary-world in which I would like to live. -- William S. Burroughs
Religion is the yeast of death cakes. It is the most awful agent on a vulnerable mind. It's the refuge of alienated and lonely people. It's what people had before television. It yokes people together into an imaginary world. It is just people talking to their imaginary friends, at length. I wouldn't mind, but some of the people are world leaders. -- Dylan Moran
The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision. That is why I have not put in, or have cut out, practically all references to anything like 'religion', to cults or practices, in the imaginary world. For the religious element is absorbed into the story and the symbolism. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
The real world is much smaller than the imaginary -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction. -- Helen Keller
The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness. -- Vernon Howard
In my imaginary utopian world there would be a greater allegiance between music writers and musicians. -- Emily Haines
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We have so many opportunities in first world countries. Let's not squander them by focusing on obstacles-real or imaginary! -- Catherine DeVrye
No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world. -- Isaac Bashevis Singer
There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
San Francisco leads the world in the category of Most People On The Sidewalk Holding Conversations With Purely Imaginary Companions. -- Dave Barry
The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at home. -- John Milton
But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people... -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I've learned the most from Randy Harrison. Because of his fantastic imaginary world filled with bizarre friends. He is constantly giving us good advice. -- Gale Harold
The film from the beginning is not the real world; it's an imaginary world. And this imaginary world is both inside and outside the normal world. -- Lucile Hadzihalilovic
As no two people see the world the same way, all trips from here to there are imaginary; all truth is a tale I am telling myself. -- Brion Gysin
Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world. -- H. G. Wells
What is the function that a clergyman performs in the world? Answer: He gets his living by assuring idiots that he can save them from an imaginary hell. -- H. L. Mencken
As the daydreams grew longer, the distinction between what was real and what was imaginary grew less. Soon I existed in a blissful world of my own creation. -- Fennel Hudson
A person incapable of imaging another world than given to him by his senses would be subhuman, and a person who identifies his imaginary world with the world of sensory fact has become insane. -- W. H. Auden
I am glad to have found a readership, but one can't write only what is likely to sell. A writer is not a shopkeeper. A writer creates an imaginary world that he transmits to others. -- Tahar Ben Jelloun
When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists. -- Paul Auster

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