Reality Quotes - Page 6

. . . I suppose one starts out, as a child, being romantic and dreaming of adventure. Poetic. Then reality comes along, and with it, a whole lot of prose.

I'm a novelist by trade and my job is to write a story rather than reconstruct actual events.

Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real.

While what I write is always largely consistent with the records that remain I freely admit that where historical fact proves a barrier to invention, I simply move a detail a little one way or another.

The thought of writing was always pleasant, but the process was painful

I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life.

The supreme truth is that nothing ever is born.

If you’re not doing what you want to do. However, you still think about it every day. This means you have not given up. Only you know what action will make it happen and thought is an action. Keep focusing on what you want to do and figure out how to turn your thoughts into reality…

There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.

The world ultimately is what we say it is.

Writing has become more than just a profession, and hobby…it has become a way to express my feelings and pour my entire soul into the pages of my books. Thank God for the little things in life that makes us feel infinite and tranquil…the little things that make way for us to escape reality and enter new worlds that we create. -Nina Jean Slack

The definition of a professional is one who does a job well even when they don't like it.

Imagination makes the world
and all the wonders in it.
The seed of every dream unfurls
as you with love begin it!

Although we may wish for more or strive to do better than we have, in these times it is enough to keep your soul.

And I wasn’t playing a role – I was trying to be myself.
But the harder I was striving, the more I was realizing that I had probably lost that ‘myself’ somewhere between two perfectly performed roles...

Perfection itself is not the ultimate goal
but the ultimate condition of life.

What you hate, you re-create; and what you bless, you put to rest.

Search not for happiness outside yourself, for nothing could be further from the truth.

I like living in my head because in there, everyone is kind and innocent. Once you start integrating yourself into the world, you realize that people are nasty, mean creatures. They're worse than zombies. People try to crush your soul and destroy your happiness, but zombies just want to have a little nibble of your brain.

There was no going back to the way things were, because all you ever got was the way things are.