Imaginary Quotes

• 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
  • Existence
  • Because
  • Imaginary

• 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
  • World
  • Experience
  • Imaginary

• Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Suffer
  • Pains
  • Invent

• My books have been translated into various languages and sold in other countries, but I never have any contact with the foreign publishers and am so disconnected from that process that it seems almost imaginary. With 'How to Save a Life', I worked closely with Usborne editors and have been involved in the publicity.

  

  Sara Zarr
  • Country
  • Book
  • Language

• Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written.

  

  William Gibson
  • Moments
  • Novel
  • Written

• I adore imaginary monsters, but I am terrified of real ones.

  

  Teju Cole
  • Real
  • Monsters
  • Adore

• You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Friend
  • Killing
  • Imaginary

• For me, pressure is self-imposed, and it's good for me. The best actors are the most prepared because it's all imaginary and you have to know the character inside out.

  

  Miles Teller
  • Character
  • Imaginary

• 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
  • World
  • Writing
  • Imaginary

• The best vacation is still a book, a renewable ticket to places real and imaginary.

  

  Charles McGrath
  • Real
  • Book
  • Stills

• "All money is imaginary," answered the Calcatrix simply. "Money is magic everyone agrees to pretend is not magic.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Money
  • Magic
  • Imaginary

• Back when I was very small, and we had this bathroom with these sort of paneled mirrors on the side. And I would just sit there - because it was the only warm room in the house. And I would - if I was in a bad place - I would go to my imaginary place with these mirrors, and create this entire other world to sort of help level out what I was dealing with.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • World
  • House
  • Helping

• From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines. Going where I list, my own master, total and absolute. Listening to others, and considering well what they say. Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating. Gently but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Listening
  • Hold
  • Imaginary

• How can you grow to love a handful of strangers so fiercely just because you have to sleep on the same couple of wooden planks with them, when half the time you were there you wanted to strangle them, and all you ever talked about is death and imaginary strawberries?

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Sleep
  • Strangers
  • Imaginary

• if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.

  

  Norton Juster
  • Life
  • Real
  • Eye

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