I’m up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try doing your VAT return with a head full of goblins.
The real world was far too real to leave neat little hints. It was full of too many things. It wasn’t by eliminating the impossible that you got to the truth, however improbable; it was by the much harder process of eliminating the possibilities.
Just because something is a metaphor doesn’t mean it can’t be real.
Granny knew all about bad fortune-telling. It was harder than the real thing. You needed a good imagination.
An Assassin, a real Assassin had to look like one-black clothes, hood, boots, and all. If they could wear any clothes, any disguise, then what could anyone do but spend all day in a small room with a loaded crossbow pointed at the door?
Real children do not go hoppity skip unless they are on drugs.
Now he knew: They were real. Who’d make up a thing like this? Okay, one of them was a cheese that rolled around of its own accord, but nobody was perfect.
The trouble with life was that you didn’t get a chance to practice before doing it for real.
Quick, someone’s coming! Look real!
No real sunrise could paint the sky Surgical Appliance Pink.
The power of prayer and faith can heal and bring happiness. The real tragedy is that the people that are helped by this don’t realize that this power is really coming from within.
Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
Real ugly girls have it tough. I feel so sorry for them sometimes.
Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.
They must be real people. And this means that every word in every line of speech must be accurate and full of some kind of meaning which stretches not only forward in the book but stems from before in the book.
Positano bites deep. It is a dream place that isn’t quite real when you are there and becomes beckoningly real after you have gone.
A plan is a real thing, and things projected are experienced. A plan once made and visualized becomes reality along with other realities – never to be destroyed but easily to be attacked.
Real revenge is making something of yourself.
The interior life is a real life, and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world.
If you are going to be a writer there is nothing I can say to stop you; if you’re not going to be a writer nothing I can say will help you. What you really need at the beginning is somebody to let you know that the effort is real.