{"quotes":[{"text":"It is kind of ridiculous that a poet is expected to live in the real world.","author":"Sanober Khan","tags":["creative-process","dreamer","dreamy","poetry","poetry-love","poetry","poets","poets-and-poetry","real-world","soul","writers","writing-life","writing-process"],"id":3644,"author_id":"Sanober+Khan"},{"text":"Imagination is the parallel universe of a writer. If he is not responding to you in this world, he is probably responding to someone in the imaginary world.","author":"Heenashree Khandelwal","tags":["imaginary-world","imagination","parallel-universe","parallel-universes","real-world","respond","writer","writer-on-writing","writers"],"id":21894,"author_id":"Heenashree+Khandelwal"},{"text":"‎'It always seemed somehow less real here... A really detailed dream, but sort of washed out, like a thin watercolor. Softer, somehow, even with their electric light and engines and everything. I guess it was because there was hardly any magic.","author":"Garth Nix","tags":["dream","longing","real-world","reality"],"id":28071,"author_id":"Garth+Nix"},{"text":"I acknowledge the challenge of believing in a supernatural divinity. After all, in the natural a rock is a rock; a desk is a desk; my skin is my skin. Or are they? That rock you pick up and feel on your skin and place on the desk is 99.9% empty space—between atoms; as is your skin and the desk. So, perhaps it is our perception of the natural or “real” world that needs tweaking, not the supernatural.","author":"Charles F. Glassman","tags":["god","inspirational","real-world","spiritual","supernatural"],"id":52737,"author_id":"Charles+F.+Glassman"},{"text":"Be a lady? Forget it. Ladies don't last a day in the real word. No one's a lady anymore. Why do you think we get our claws polished?","author":"Crystal Woods","tags":["advice","bitches","catty","claws","fighter","ladies","nails","about-life","for-women","real-world","women","words-of-wisdom"],"id":56162,"author_id":"Crystal+Woods"},{"text":"But I knew that, both in fairyland and the real world, too, wishes were a slipperier things.","author":"Karen Joy Fowler","tags":["fairytales","real-world","wishes"],"id":71135,"author_id":"Karen+Joy+Fowler"},{"text":"Welcome to the real world, Mother Robot, a beautiful and dangerous place. Now you can truly begin to live.","author":"Tony DiTerlizzi","tags":["beautiful","dangerous","fiction","life","real-world","reality","wondla"],"id":87644,"author_id":"Tony+DiTerlizzi"},{"text":"Adults were constantly auditioning, but for what?","author":"Alison Espach","tags":["adulthood","auditions","childhood","foolishness","judgment","real-world"],"id":126782,"author_id":"Alison+Espach"},{"text":"Real life doesn't grant us many of the more than useful possibilities people can come out with in fiction.","author":"Camilo Gomes Jr.","tags":["fiction","real-life","real-world"],"id":139747,"author_id":"Camilo+Gomes+Jr."},{"text":"If we demand perfection from ourselves we are not living in the real world...The inherent problem in the relationship between the ideal \u0026 the real is that the ideal judges the real as unacceptable and brings down condemnation and wrath on the real. This sets up an adversarial relationship between the two and like all adversaries, they move further and further apart.","author":"Henry Cloud","tags":["adversaries","perfectionism","perfectly-imperfect","real-world","self-esteem","self-hate","self-hatred","self-judgement","true-self"],"id":161815,"author_id":"Henry+Cloud"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":34,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}