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Quotes About Reality

Fantasy should be as close as possible to journalism.
~ Dino Buzzati
There is a rule for fantasy writers: The more truth you mix in with a lie, the stronger it gets.
~ Diane Duane
Keep away from fantasy. Shake off the image.
~ Sam Shepard
We live in our fantasies and endure our realities.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda.
~ Michael Crichton
Fantasy is hard to do when it comes to making it look good compared to something that's a documentary or hyper-realism.
~ Skrillex
Just when you think you should start accepting that you're becoming an adult, all your childhood fantasies come true.
~ El-P
The heart grows brutal feeding on fantasies.
~ Robert Pinsky
Though dreams can be deceiving; like faces are to hearts, they serve for sweet relieving, when fantasy and reality lie too far apart.
~ Fiona Apple
I have a certain avoidance of reality that makes fantasy an ideal choice for me.
~ Maggie Stiefvater
I don't think people should confuse fantasy and reality because no one is perfect - we all know that.
~ Erin Heatherton
We see what we want to see. We idealize each other with our own fantasies.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey, Genevieve
Why are you messing with the fantasy? We know about the reality. Don't ruin the fantasy, OK?
~ Anthony Michael Hall
there is no such thing as fantasy unrelated to reality
~ Maurice Sendak
In real football, I wouldn't want Terrell Owens anywhere near my team. But you're nuts if you don't take him in fantasy.
~ Unknown
When we do fantasy, we must not lose sight of reality.
~ Walt Disney
I suppose romantically there are fantasies that can still be realized. But not professionally.
~ George Michael
Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy which we call mathematics.
~ Gregory Bateson
All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
~ James Joyce
All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it.
~ Gene Wolfe
The way I write things, I just write them with a clash between reality and fantasy mostly. You have to use fantasy to show different sides of reality; it's how it can bend.
~ Jimi Hendrix
I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.
~ Anita Desai
As we practice, we begin to know the difference between our fantasy and reality.
~ Pema Chodron
It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. That that we were born and that we face eternal extinction after death is an extraordinary fantasy.
~ Brian Perkins