We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.
Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.
I want you, as a reader, to experience what I experience, to let that other world, that imaginary world that I have created, tell you things about the real world.
We have to be able to use our imaginations to make the character's experiences real to us.
I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
If there is one thing for which the 'Real Housewives' franchise deserves artistic recognition, it is the patient and immaculate building of a villain.
In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India.
Kids do their own thing. We let them be real kids. You get an immediate response - if they don't like the music, they don't do it.
God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and perfectly real, without miracle - or instruction.
I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.
More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.
It was implicitly supposed that every living thing was distinctively plant or animal; that there were real and profound differences between the two, if only they could be seized.
Berlin inspired Bowie and stirred him to write about real, important matters.
Typically, actors overplay jargon or toss it away in an extravagant display of casualness. Real people hit the important parts hard.
In subsequent years the groups you named had important roles in educating people about the real issues in Washington and Raleigh, and within the Democratic Party.
Hollywood is in control of politics and has imported their action-filled movie scripts into the real world.
One of the things that science fiction gets to do is thought experiments about the human condition that would be impractical or unethical to conduct in real life.
To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.
I think reading an audiobook is a real skill - for one thing, you have to be able to do impressions and voices, which I cannot do - and it's just not a skill I have.
