“In creating the strange milieu in which your story takes place, you must first understand as well as you possibly can the familiar milieu in which your own life is taking place. Until you have examined and comprehended the world around you, you can't possibly create a complex and believable imaginary world.” WorldFirstsWellsStoriesLife IsStrangeCreatingComplexesFamiliarImaginaryBelievableMilieuImaginary World Book:How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy Source: How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy
“I love being part of a group who tells stories, whether it be in the theater or in cinema, and I love creating imaginary worlds rather as children do, but I never had a burning desire to act, but it just sort of suited me.” WorldChildrenStoriesDesireLove IsGroupsCreatingTheaterBurningCinemaImaginaryBurning DesireImaginary World Author:Jeremy Irons
“If something gets under my own skin, and keeps reoccurring, it starts to take on a certain weight and value, and I think, "I have to put this in the song. I have no choice but to mention Greek Cypriots in this song." It's a little internal challenge to myself. Like creating little imaginary rituals in yourself to help the song go from nonexisting to existing.” IfsThinkingLittlesHelpingCertainValuesSongChoicesChallengesMy OwnCreatingSkinsWeightGreekInternalsRitualImaginaryCypriots Author:Andrew Bird
“Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.” LifeInspirationalArtRealPoetryDesignCreatingGardenPoetry IsPoeticImaginaryToads Author:Marianne Moore
“The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest invetions of Western civilization: the game of telling stories, inventing characters, and creating the imaginary paradise of the individual, from whence no one can be expelled because, in a novel, no one owns the truth and everyone has the right to be heard and understood.” CharacterStoriesGamesIndividualNovelHeardReaderCivilizationCreatingUnderstoodWesternParadiseContractsImaginaryInventingTelling StoriesWestern Civilization Author:Carlos Fuentes