“The supernatural world has always been more real to me than the real world.”

“My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a narrowing-down from reality, an impoverishment of what the real world has to offer.”

Richard Dawkins (1941) English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author

“A book had always been a door to another world… a world much more interesting and fantastical than reality. But she had finally discovered that life could be even more wonderful than fantasy.

And that love could fill the real world with magic.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

“I think a picture is more like the real world when it is made out of the real world.”

Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008) American artist

“What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?”

Beatrix Potter (1866–1943) English children's writer and illustrator

“The real world is much smaller than the imaginary”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“Beauty was the promise of happiness, not happiness itself; and the anticipated world was often more rich than anything real.”

Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer

“We do live, all of us, on many different levels, and for most artists the world of imagination is more real than the world of the kitchen sink.”

Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer

“The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.”

Oscar Wilde An Ideal Husband

“The more real you get the more unreal the world gets.”

John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter