All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world because they find ordinary life rather difficult or boring or both.

I'm not interested in an imaginary world.

When you go to the theater, you are slipping out of your life into someone else's imaginary world.

The imaginary world has always been the most fun place for me to be.

I spent my childhood in an imaginary world - probably because I needed an escape. I think that's one of the reasons people have imaginations - because they can't maintain existence here.

Fear is the imaginary response to something that has not happened.