All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one.
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All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one.
My mirror probes down to the heart. I write words on the forehead and around the corners of the mouth. My human faces are truer than the real ones.
It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. Everybody is a real one to me, everybody is like some one else too to me. No one of them that I know can want_x000D_ to know it and so I write for myself and strangers.
Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.
There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about.
Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't. But you can't tell the difference when you have no real information. Fear can create even more imaginary obstacles than ignorance can. That's why the smallest step away from speculation and into reality can be an amazing relief...The Reality Solution means: Do it before you're ready.
If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), "Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist?" chances are you are. The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.
It is obvious that an imagined # world , however different it may be from the real one, must have something - a form - in common with it.
Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
My mommy always said there were no monsters - no real ones - but there are.
In a future that portends stronger and more-frequent hurricanes striking North America's Atlantic coast, ferocious winds will pummel tall, unsteady structures. Some will topple, knocking down others. Like a gap in the forest when a giant tree falls, new growth will rush in. Gradually, the asphalt jungle will give way to a real one.
As you explore your inner world, your outer world will come more sharply into focus. As you face your imagined barriers, you will encounter real ones, as well.
We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
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