Quotes About Reality

People's fantasies are what give them problems. If you didn't have fantasies you wouldn't have problems because you'd just take whatever was there.

There are some people who can never see a little cloud of fantasy float across the horizon of their dreams without building a heavy castle in the air upon it, and bringing it to earth.

Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what really happened to me... not my heroines.

Is that romantic fantasy real? Um, after kids, no. Take the kids away, I don't know. Depends.

The minute I forget to balance reality with the fantasy, I'm going back to Virginia.

But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world.

All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.

There's a lot of fantasy about what Scotland is, and the shortbread tins and that sort of thing.

I live between fantasy and reality at all times. In that way, I'm a librarian.

I don't know what that weid fantasy is that makes people go, "Oh, you must have had a great childhood."

We go on dates thinking that person is our future husband or wife, without getting to know them, as we live in a fantasy and an illusion of romance.

I am less interested in ghosts than in people who see ghosts.

Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.

I like to maintain a certain sense of fantasy. At home, do I have the full hair and makeup? No. But I might have the nice dress on.

We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay. I believe we have always done this, used images to stand and understand what otherwise would be intolerable.

It's people's worst fantasy to see their partner kissing someone else, even though it's a job and it's not real.

Hollywood was a fantasy world in more ways than one.

Fantasy deals with the immeasurable while science-fiction deals with the measurable.

Scratch a fantasy and you'll find a nightmare.

The reality, or substance, of professional wrestling is the ability to perpetuate a fantasy. I never distinguished between fantasy and reality. I made my fantasy reality for over 60 years.

The problem with fantasy is the greatest benefit of fantasy: it prevents us from living in the present moment.

Fantasies aren't reality, I know, I know, I know. Except when they are. Except when you make them into reality.

There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do.

I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is a depiction of the real. Fantasy is a depiction of the unreal.