Imaginary World Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Insane, Facts, Would Be

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• 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

  Giving, Advice, World

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• 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

  Religious, Cutting, Practice

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.172, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Distance, Awards, Years

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• 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

  Growing Up, Character, Thinking

  Mohsin Hamid (2015). “Discontent and its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London”, p.61, Penguin

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• 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

  Writing, World, Found

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• Besides the alternate universe offered by a book, the quiet space of a museum was my favorite place to go. My mom said I was an escapist at heart . . . that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one. It’s true that I’ve always been able to yank myself out of this world and plunge myself into another.

  Amy Plum

  Mom, Real, Book

  Amy Plum (2011). “Die for Me”, p.19, Harper Collins

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

  Amy Plum

  Mom, Real, Heart

  Amy Plum (2016). “Inside the World of Die for Me”, p.26, HarperCollins

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• 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

  Fun, Writing, Thinking

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• 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

  Writing, Play, Backyards

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• Sitting in the darkness of the cinema, I got to see another world. This imaginary world was a refuge for many of us. Of course, the films were controlled and censored by the regime. But I still thought, around this time, that maybe making films would be good for me. I thought of expressing myself through this medium, and of doing something for the Kurds. The options were clear: either I'd work as a lawyer under the Baath regime or make movies independently.

  Mano Khalil

  Darkness, World, Lawyer

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The satisfaction of short fiction does not come close to the rich pleasure I get as a writer in the long deep immersion in the same long work and its growing complexity. I suppose you might say I love to wallow in my characters and imaginary worlds. I love to play with the whole necklace, not just one glittering stone.

  Vera Nazarian

  Character, Play, Long

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• If there's any kind of morality, for me, it's about reality; what is reality? I have a hard time distinguishing what is valuable when it comes to the real world and the fantasy world. Like, should I invest my time in the ordinary world or the imaginary world?

  Sufjan Stevens

  Real, Hard Times, Ordinary World

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 31, 2011.

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• I came to the idea of how fine it would be to think of an encyclopedia of an actual world, and then of an encyclopedia, a very rigorous one of course, of an imaginary world, where everything should be linked.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Thinking, Ideas, Would Be

  Source: denisdutton.com

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• 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

  Song, Real, Writing

  Source: thequietus.com

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• 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

  Dad, Hard Work, Past

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In creating the strange milieu in which your story takes place, you must first understand as well as you possibly can the familiar milieu in which your own life is taking place. Until you have examined and comprehended the world around you, you can't possibly create a complex and believable imaginary world.

  Orson Scott Card

  Creating, Stories, World

  Orson Scott Card (2001). “How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy”, p.61, Writer's Digest Books

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• A character does seem to have a life of its own, but I have what I'd describe as a very fluid relationship with them - as I'm thinking of what they will be like, they shift in and out of focus - they are a projection of some idea inside of me, even if a character is inspired by an actual person, I'm well aware that it is not that person. My job is to identify the essence of the character, and to bring them to life long enough to commit the acts, say the words or simply "be" in a way that allows them to affect and be affected by other elements and events in the imaginary world of a story.

  Phoebe Gloeckner

  Character, Thinking, Long

  "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.

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• 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

  Real, Taken, Character

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I was a kid I loved to read, but I didn't write and I didn't create imaginary worlds. So, if one student walks away thinking, "She's obviously just an ordinary person, yet she gets to make her living doing what she wants to do. Maybe that applies to me, too," then I feel like my time has been well spent.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Writing, Kids, Thinking

  TeachingBooks.net Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. November 12, 2005.

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