Quotes About Illusion

If there's one thing I've learned, it's that people aren't always who you think they are.

The foolish man who, under the infatuation, believes that a particular beautiful woman has fallen for him verily dances to her tune as though he is her plaything!

We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.

The world is an abstract art. We see it as we want to see it. It is a garden of roses and it is also a forest of thorny bushes and poison oak.

Q: Is life a dream or a meditation? A: Life is a meditation when you know it is a dream.

Death, decay, negativity, inconsistency and imperfection are illusory superimpositions

In my head I'm a rapper, but I'm not!

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop.

Naturally, the reader has access only to the events I show and the way I show them, but as has been said, there's generally a good deal of ambiguity in that presentation.

I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able to say to themselves that the fabric of the magic detailed was perfectly believable.

I understand that fictional men aren't real. Not 'really real'. I know this the same way I wonder if my readers are disappointed when they meet me.

It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person. Then I meet other writers and realize that they're not.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

I have no illusions of the future. Or maybe it's all illusion. I don't know. I've always been ready for it.

The real secret of magic lies in the performance.

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

Hollywood is an idea. It's not a real place.

It is so interesting when you meet an actor in real life and they look completely different.

The image that is on screen is very different from who I am in real life.

I understand that sometimes when you're young it's difficult to remember the difference between real life and what is part of fantasy.

It occured to me the other day that I've made out with more people on camera than I have in real life!

I think it is important to make sure that I have my real life as well, because Hollywood can certainly seem like an alternate reality sometimes.

I actually thought, like, I was sure 'Get Smart' and, like, 'James Bond' movies, I was sure that that's what real life was like.