Quotes About Reality

Fiction is an act of willfulness, a deliberate effort to reconcile, to rearrange, to reconstitute nothing short of reality itself. Even among the most reluctant and doubtful of writers, this willingfulness must emerge. Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying, 'Listen to me'.

He saw that his mother was dwelling in an alternate time, a more bearable reality.

Boeken zijn de beste middelen - privé, discreet, betrouwbaar - om over de werkelijkheid heen te stappen.

But he was no longer in Tollygunge. He had stepped out of it as he had stepped so many mornings out of dreams, its reality and its particular logic rendered meaningless in the light of day.

I libri sono i mezzi migliori - privati, discreti, affidabili - per scavalcare la realtà.

Even a novel drawn from reality, faithful to it, is not the truth, just as the image in the mirror is not a person in flesh and blood. It remains, that is, an abstraction, no matter how realistic, how close to the facts.

Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see. It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out. It doesn't matter much to me.

Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death.

Nell Zink is a writer of extraordinary talent and range. Her work insistently raises the possibility that the world is larger and stranger than the world you think you know.

Sometimes what someone else does is really not what you expected them to do, which to be honest, sometimes doesn't work.

People like everything to work out, and anytime you don't make everything work out perfectly, you really are fighting against what most people are going to the movies for, especially in the summer.

The reality is you have to do your work and maybe you don't know everything. Maybe I don't know what the hell I'm doing! But most of the time you can't even admit that, though.

When I won the Oscar, there was something telling me 'this isn't the truth'. I had to get back to real work.

That's exactly why nature always trumps gardens. Gardens are just reality pruned of chaos. What doesn't work you rip out.

Sometimes, you promise someone forever, but it doesn't work that way.

Ideals are great in theory ... but they don't work too well in real life.

Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.

Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death.

When you start a new project and they say, "Your director is going to be Joe Blo," you're hoping that Joe Blo will be the next Martin Scorsese, but it doesn't always work out that way.

We can feel sorry for ourselves or we can put the work boots on and understand the situation and the reality of it all.

The goal of all your hard work should be to make your reality everyone else's fantasy land.

It could have been like a fairy tale. But fairy tales aren't real. Things don't work like that. There's a price for everything.

What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality.

Less so here, I've noticed. I can see why there's a misconception that it's easier when your parents are actors, but it doesn't work out at all. In fact, it's the reverse.