Quotes About Reality

If you think you're living in an imperfect world, you can write a book about a better world and hope that enough of your readers will notice the difference between the two.

I can only really speak for myself and what I've noticed in my kids and the people in my life, but because dinosaurs were real, and yet they seem so fantastical, is why they held such a huge fascination for me as a child. They're so different from human beings.

I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality.

I think this notion of acting and glamour is getting in everybody's way.

The notion that Cuba is the only country in the world where you can live without working must be erased forever.

I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth.

There was a time when 'universe' meant 'all there is.' Everything. The whole shebang. The notion of more than one universe, more than one everything, would seemingly be a contradiction in terms.

Truth is an illusory notion.

I loved the notion of why women don't tell each other the truth and why we find the friend who will tell us, 'You're not hearing back from the guy because he must have been called out of town.'

People really want to think that these things really happened. I don't know why that important, but I know that when I finish reading a novel or something, I want to know how much of that really happened to this author.

There's never a false note in a Berg novel.

The state of childhood resonates with life inside a fantasy novel. If you have no control over how you spend large chunks of your day, or are at the mercy of flawed giant beings, then the desire to bend the laws of the world by magic is strong and deep.

The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being president of the United States - it's not gonna happen.

Like all novelists, I'm interested in the filters between reality and the imagination.

I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.

I've always had a compassion for characters in novels - the sense that they are, whatever they might think, living in a world that has a shape they don't know and can't finally alter.

Now as a musician, if you have it within you, you can create your own reality. Believe me, it's a novelty.

When you're a kid, you think 'Oh, it's so great. I'm going to go to Hollywood. I'm going to go to Broadway.' For a long time, it was such a novelty.

I don't know where I come from but I'm here now so deal with it.

And nowadays, the idea of AI is not really science fiction anymore - it's just science fact.

I want America to know that you can't believe everything you hear, and nowadays, you can't believe everything you see.

We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.

I had a wife, kids and a mortgage and my acting career was nowhere, so I was painting and decorating people's homes.

I don't think that bands that make it on their first album are as strong as bands that don't: there is nowhere to go but down.